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My profile in the thunderbird appdata\roaming is 2.54 gigs. What the heck is going on in there?

What can I do to get this under control?

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It may help to pull down File in TB and select Compact Folders. If you have a 2.5GB mailbox, that will be a pretty time-consuming process, but if there's a lot of wasted space, it'll cut down the size considerably.

Of course, any mail in your mailbox will stay, and continue to consume space, so it would make sense to delete some messages first. Add the Size column to your message list and sort on it, if you want to delete the biggest messages to reclaim the most space quickest. Don't neglect your Sent Mail folder when looking for large messages to ditch.

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if i have all my accounts setup to use imap shouldn't the downloads stay on the server and not copied local unless I save them? – Steve Aug 24 '11 at 4:12
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You're likely downloading your mail/attachments locally.

More info about the profile folder that Thunderbird keeps is available here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

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