Profiles on C: drive but Thunderbird using the Wintemp folder while deleting to TRASH folder
Think this is a recent issue, but not 100% sure
I have the TB Profiles on a fast SSD C drive, but for some reason, when deleting to Trash, its using my slower Windows Temp folder as scratch, making the process quite slow. The Trash file is on the C drive, so I dont know why its using Wintemp at all, unless its some kind of UNDO file.
Any way to make it NOT do this, or use the C drive for whatever scratch file its creating ?
Okulungisiwe ngu Matt
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Thunderbird makes extensive use of the system temp folder. I was not aware it used it in deleting, in IMAP accounts I would have assumed it would use the cache in the appdata\local folder. Generally this location is set by windows.
See https://softwarekeep.com/help-center/what-is-the-appdata-folder-in-windows-10
Are you sure it is writing to the system temp folder? What is it writing?
I also doubt it is writing to system temp.
You might catch where the IO is using monitor's disk tab, available from the task manager performance tab.
Yes, I already checked where the activity was, and for sure its the Drive where the Wintemp files are, and not the Thunderbird Profiles.
Not sure exactly what file its writing, but its making heavy use of the drive, more than I usually see in my system. I even tried adding the Thunderbird folders to the Microsoft Virus Scan exemption list ,in case that was the issue.
Kind of strange, really.
Everything I do on my computer is extremely fast.
Moving messages to Trash on TB lately is extremely slow.
Seems like a bug to me .