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Tbird says not enough disk space to compact folders, but I have 100GB free.

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I'm accustomed to having T'bird ask if I would like to compact folders, saying it would save 20+ Mbytes to do so. In the past two or three days, however, after I say "Yes", the compacting process slows to a crawl, T'bird becomes unresponsive, and then pops up an error message that "There is not sufficient disk space available to complete the operation" [that's the gist of it as I remember, not copied directly from the screen.] Eventually a different message reports that compaction was unsuccessful owing to insufficient space available. 

  My hard disk has more than 100 GB of space free.   What/where is the size-limit set that prevents compaction from finishing?  I have tried clearing the cache, also increased cache size to 1024 Mb.
I'm accustomed to having T'bird ask if I would like to compact folders, saying it would save 20+ Mbytes to do so. In the past two or three days, however, after I say "Yes", the compacting process slows to a crawl, T'bird becomes unresponsive, and then pops up an error message that "There is not sufficient disk space available to complete the operation" [that's the gist of it as I remember, not copied directly from the screen.] Eventually a different message reports that compaction was unsuccessful owing to insufficient space available. My hard disk has more than 100 GB of space free. What/where is the size-limit set that prevents compaction from finishing? I have tried clearing the cache, also increased cache size to 1024 Mb.

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Wayne Mery
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Do you experience the same problem if you have started Thunderbird in safe mode? 

- win7 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17419/windows-7-advanced-startup-options-safe-mode#start-computer-safe-mode=windows-7