Compact Folders

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feranick
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Compact Folders

Post by feranick »

What is triggering the Compact folder popup request window (in other words the one that asks you if you would like to compress forders)? Sometimes it comes up everytime I open TB although none of my folders have changed, some other times with no apparent reason. How can I control the behavior that seems to be just too... erratical.

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Nick
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Post by Äkiidoll »

Go to File > Offline > Offline Settings, and check the box for
"Compact folders when it will save over ___ KB." Even if you
don't have offline support installed, you can have Thunderbird
compact your folders in this way by adding the following two
lines to the user.js file:

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/* Compact folder settings  - "xxx" value for kb */
user_pref("mail.prompt_purge_threshhold", true);
user_pref("mail.purge_threshhold", xxx);

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?t ... ng_Folders
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Post by jazzle »

yay!
thanks for this answer!
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