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This is absolutely horrifying. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I just found out my .thunderbird folder under my user home directory is 7.4 Gigabytes... However I'm pretty sure I'm using IMAP for all my email accounts, so why is it so huge? And what should I do? Can I just delete the .thunderbird folder? Thank you so much for help!! |
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It is probably cache and emails you read, thunderbird needs to download them for you to read, even if you use IMAP. You can start by cleaning the cache: http://www.techiecorner.com/1737/how-to-clear-thunderbird-imap-cache/ Or you can use compacting: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders |
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It seems that you just store really much emails. So you have together 7.4 GB mails and attatments. In the standard option thunderbird download all mails and mirrow them locally. If you delete some (big) mails you well get a smaller thunderbird directory. |
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