large profile
Hello!
I have trouble in my company with thunderbird large profiles, we are using windows operation system with roaming profiles, the problem is with thunderbird profiles they are getting very large in some case even 5-30 GB.This all slows down our work and takes a lot of disk space. We have also tried to make the compacting automatic, but it doesnt work( compact all folders when it will save over 100 mb in total).
The only thing that helps is to do the compacting manually for all folders but this is very troublesome for our company.
Is there any solution?
Regards, Madis
Novain'i Madis t@
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The compact is not total savings, it is savings in the folder.... so set it to say the average size of a doze emails in your business. You might want to also disable the global search and index as it consumes a large amount of space.
Tools > menu (alt+T) > options > advanced > general.
If the file global-mesages-db.sqlite is not deleted by turning off the indexer a manual deletion may be required. Most importantly is to not have the Windows search integration enabled as it double (roughly) the space used with WDSEML files. Finally, do your users really move machines enough to require the Thunderbird profile be in the roaming profile?
Thanks for the feedback I tried that and deleted "global-messages-db.sqlite "file that takes only 150MB However the very large folder is the "ImapMail" folder it can be 5-30 GB depends on the user.
A couple of suggestions.
re: 'We have also tried to make the compacting automatic, but it doesnt work( compact all folders when it will save over 100 mb in total). '
I would suggest that you lower that figure of 100MB to 20MB to force compacting to occur more frequently or use 'File' > 'Compact Folders' on a regular basis.
IMAP mail accounts download contents of folder to a temp cache to faciliate quicker selection/reading of emails in that folder. But do you need to see all of the contents of that folder?
You could select to only download eg: the last xx number of days or xx emails. This may help with speeding up the process. See info at this link:
Another idea you could consider, would be to Archive emails older than eg: month or 2 months depending upon how many emails you receive. You could archive by month and year. This would organise your emails and create smaller folders. Smaller files download faster thus helping to improve performance.
I forgot to say that we are using the shared mail function also, does all that works with it do (sync the last xx mail and archive emails)?
The Archived emails would be moved to a different folder(s). This means everyone would need to view/synchronize with the Archive folder(s) to see the older mail. But this may be to their benefit as well. You would need to agree on how old the emails need to be and whether they go into one Archive folder or create sub folders for Archived clients or by year, depends upon your filing arrangement.
The synchronising only xx mail will only effect what is shown on your computer.