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Receiving Error - "The folder 'inbox on redaced@westriv.com could not be compacted because writing to folder ailed. Verify that you have enough disk space and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again."

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dmmuel
dmmuel

Every time I open my email, an error box pops up saying: "The folder 'inbox on redaced@westriv.com could not be compacted because writing to folder ailed. Verify that you have enough disk space and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again."

Otherwise, everything is working fine. I receive my emails and I can send. Can you explain this error box?

Where can I see my available disk space? And what does the term 'write privileges to the file system' mean??

Thanks for any help.

dmmuel@westriv.com

Every time I open my email, an error box pops up saying: "The folder 'inbox on redaced@westriv.com could not be compacted because writing to folder ailed. Verify that you have enough disk space and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again." Otherwise, everything is working fine. I receive my emails and I can send. Can you explain this error box? Where can I see my available disk space? And what does the term 'write privileges to the file system' mean?? Thanks for any help. dmmuel@westriv.com

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Ed
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That's a bug which I believe is fixed but might take a bit to land in the release versions. Meanwhile, you mght try to disable automatice compacting.

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Wayne Mery
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dmmuel


Please post to give us your current status and version number.

We had a bug which was fixed in 140.2.1esr (and release 142) - Bug 1959858 - Error message compacting non-empty folder - "The folder 'Inbox on something@xxxx.yyy' could not be compacted because writing to folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again."