http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557833 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557833#c0 Summary: Thunderbird: Using an egregious amount of disk space Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox AssignedTo: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jeffm@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Development Blocker: --- I have Thunderbird configured to sync locally with two accounts, gmail and imap.suse.de. Both accounts, according to folder properties and their respective web interfaces, are about 1 GB in size. I have emptied the trash and compacted folders numerous times on both of them. Currently, on disk, my gmail account takes up 7.1 GB. My imap.suse.de account takes up 1.8G. The search sqlite database takes up another 2.9 GB. That is *12 GB* just for Thunderbird! Part of this is due to Thunderbird not recognizing that the [Gmail] folder duplicates things. I'm not sure how to account for that, but even if it counts messages twice - that's still a huge waste. I have a 30 GB /home file system, which historically has been well more than enough space for normal use, an openSUSE ISO image, and several expanded and built kernel trees. With openSUSE 11.2, I've had to remove the ISO image as well as most of the trees, *just* to accommodate Thunderbird. Thunderbird is routinely running my file system out of space, corrupting its own indexes, and today it even corrupted my Address Book for which it had saved no recent backup. Bart Whitely noted in bug #543942 that removing the cached files and having it re-download the messages shrunk his caches by a factor of 100. I did eliminate my "All Mail" folder from being downloaded, but downloading all the messages still only added up to about 218MB. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.