So, about a month ago I decided to update to 115. After the update I immediately regretted everything, and switched back to 112. I started noticing that my C drive is having less free space. The profile folder is 13,4 GB. Why did this happen? I never had this problem before I tried new update. Is there any solution to this?
Posted Nov 13, 2023, 1:01 PM UTC
In your accounts settings/folders there is a section about retaining mail. It manages how long a local copy of your mail is kept on site (for offline access). Change that to fit your needs. For example, I keep mails in my inbox for ever, since I may need to check them often, but set TRASH and BIN to 0 since I don't expect to need ready access to them.
After those changes compact the account, it will help.
does that delete only messages on TB or does it actually delete on gmail as well.
Many moons ago but still within memory, I had this happening to several TB folders. What it came down to was the temporary file that TB was making during compacting wasn't closing. ever. And kept building while TB kept trying to create a temp file. Or something. It was a mess.
so how did you fix your problem? i googled a bit and read that i should turn off "message synchronizing" on all email account.
I shut TB down then went through all the mail folders deleting .tmp files, restarting TB, let it do its thing then look at the folders again to see if it was done trying to do whatever it was trying to do. If it didn't create any gigabyte-sized tmp files I was good to go. If it did, I'd shut it down, delete the tmp files and the global-messages-db.sqlite file. Restarted TB - and hopefully that did it.
There's also a (once) popular fix of deleting .msf files and letting TB rebuild its indexes.
Note: do not delete any files(!) unless you see what I have done corroborated by others to be successful. My memory gets a little fuzzy when it comes to technical details.
In my profile folder, there's a folder ImapMail, which is 17GB big. Inside that folder is imap.gmail.com, imap.gmail-1.com, imap.gmail-2.com, imap.gmail-3.com. Do you know if I can delete these folders?
It should just resynchronize from the server. How many Gmail accounts do you have?
Do not delete folders!
Gmail does seem to be generating issues the last few months. I don’t have a solid answer for your current issue but: