On Wed, 12/25/2024 6:49 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Whenever I run "Compact Folders" on my IMAP accounts, I get the following message;
"The folder Trash could not be compacted because writing to the folder failed. Verify that you have enough disk space, and that you have write privileges to the file system, then try again."
The Trash folders, however, always empty with "Empty Trash".
Merry Christmas to all.
Ed
This is on Betterbird, my regular mail program.
Ed
There are two files, Trash and Trash.msf .
The Trash.msf is the Mork Summary File.
The Trash (no file extension) is an MBOX, and
each message has some status lines.
From - Sat Sep 16 22:18:50 2023
X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 \___ State information, injected into the header of
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 / the message.
If the Trash.msf were to get erased as a file,
when Betterbird/Thunderbird starts up, they generate
a fresh Trash.msf . The same would happen for any
other materials in the Profile folder, possessing
an MBOX format file.
For newsgroups, the .dat file is for message filters
(and irrelevant to this discussion thread). There
is only one functional file per newsgroup, and it
isn't an MBOX.
alt.comp.os.windows-10.msf
That contains a Mork Summary File based on a minimal set of
header information (the Xover overview database header lines from
the server). If the Mork .msf is corrupted, it is erased,
and not all the state info is available any more. If you then
fetch newsgroup message headers, they are logged into the new .msf ,
but your "read" messages, your "ignore threads" are all forgotten,
as their status was flushed into the ocean with the previous
corrupted and auto-removed alt.comp.os.windows-10.msf .
*******
Now, with the color commentary out of the way...
1) Exit Betterbird/Thunderbird
2) Move the Trash.msf to a safe place, outside
of the Profile folder. It's not really important,
but we're using good compute practices here.
3) Now, start Betterbird.
4) A new Trash.msf will be made.
By reading the status lines of each complete message in the Trash
X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 \___ These status lines
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 /
a new Trash .msf will be made.
5) Now, do something to transfer new material to the Trash MBOX.
Does the message about cannot write still appear ?
It should not. You've said you have plenty of disk space.
The only other way the Trash can "block", is if the software
has a "max_trash" setting. Does it ? I do not know.
For other MBOX, there is likely an upper limit to size,
some number larger than 4GB, but I do not know at what
level they start warning you. Most email tools do not
scale well, and there has to be a limit expressed at some
point. For example, you will run out of RAM if the MBOX
is too big in BB/TB.
Paul
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