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Compacting does not compress or Zip your existing mail. It does nothing to save space other than act as a garbage collector and remove messages from the message store that you have already disposed of. | Compacting does not compress or Zip your existing mail. It does nothing to save space other than act as a garbage collector and remove messages from the message store that you have already disposed of. | ||
== What is this | == What is this house keeping process? == | ||
When you delete or move a mail in Thunderbird some things that most people assume happen don't. First the mail is not moved. It is copied to the new location and deleted. Second | When you delete or move a mail in Thunderbird some things that most people assume happen don't. First the mail is not moved. It is copied to the new location and marked as deleted. Second deleted mail is not deleted, it is marked as deleted and a copy made in the deleted mail folder. | ||
What this means is that after you delete a message you now have an folder with a message in it that Thunderbird does not show you. It is still there occupying space and slowing searches and folder access, you just can't see it. You also have a nice new copy of that mail in the Deleted messages folder. Compacting is simply Thunderbird taking out the trash and getting rid of that hidden message. | What this means is that after you delete a message you now have an folder with a message in it that Thunderbird does not show you. It is still there occupying space and slowing searches and folder access, you just can't see it. You also have a nice new copy of that mail in the Deleted messages folder. While this is not a major issue in the short term, after all what is one message more of less, it does become a huge issue over time as the number of hidden messages starts to approach or even exceed the ones you have in the folder. Compacting is simply Thunderbird taking out the trash and getting rid of that hidden message. | ||
== What does compacting actually do?== | == What does compacting actually do?== | ||