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If you don't use Mozilla Thunderbird, than probably you don't know what this is. It's alternative
open source e-mail client. I would recommend it to everyone. Well, if you do use
Thunderbird as your E-mail client than this article might be useful to you. So let's
get started.
My Thunderbird profile is more than 2GB large. I have news and groups subscriptions
and 3 different e-mail accounts. The problem is, that last month the program was
very slow. I use many sub folders and while clicking on them, the program freezed
for a few seconds and then showed it's content. This was really annoying. So I checked
my profile and found many files and folders. I also searched the Thunderbird website
for more information. What really got attention to my eyes was
this article. The
problem lies in *.msf files, which are summary files for each folder and might become
corrupted and can contain "garbage". So I tested this right away (read results bellow).
Procedure is here and use this at your own risk. Backup your profile before proceeding.
I recommend this tool.
- Close Thunderbird.
- Click START - RUN and type %APPDATA%\Thunderbird
- Then find profiles.ini file and open it in notepad.
- Find the line which contains Path= parameter. Under this parameter is a path
to your profile.
- Go to your profile folder, where you will find *.msf files.
- Delete *.msf files and restart Thunderbird.
- Wait for a few minutes, while Thunderbird generates all *.msf files back. When summary file for X folder is done, you can click on X folder and see it's content. If you don't see anything, while clicking on X folder, than summary file is not ready yet or you might have
another problem.
- Restart Thunderbird.
When I reopened Thunderbird I was happy :). Folders were opened instantly with no
delays. I also noticed that some of *.msf files are smaller now, so this proofs
that some parts were unnecessary in those files.