Charles Marcus said the following on 09/21/2011 08:05 AM:
On 2011-09-20 5:37 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Charles Marcus said the following on 09/20/2011 04:22 PM:
On 2011-09-20 4:03 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
I wish that Thunderbird would NOT index mail on my laptop, but it does.
So turn it (GLODA) off...
Ah
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Using_Gloda
Well it is off, but I still have these index files ...
You still have *what* index files? There is only one GLODA index file,
and you have to manually delete it after disabling GLODA to make it go
away. It will recreate itself, but it will be tiny, and remain static.
global-messages-db.sqlite
No, it grows.
I speculate it grows as I visit new folders but am still looking into that.
So perhaps its not index that taking all the space and gets rebuilt when
T Bird says its downloading the headers and indexing ...
It will definitely say it is downloading headers, but it shouldn't say
indexing, that is GLODA.
I can't say I like that but see its necessity: how else could it display
them :-)
But looking under ~/.thunderbird/1current/ I'm finding folders for each
folder on the server that have the full text of the messages (but not in
mbox format), as well as the XML styled header information.
Occasionally I find binary blobs that 'strings' shows contain headers.
I've deleted them but it doesn't seem to affect TBird. I'll go back and
look to see if they get recreated :-(
Do you have it set to download *all* messages? That is the default, and
I *hate* it.
NO I DO NOT!
I NEVER HAVE AND I NEVER WILL
That strikes me as such an obvious space-waster!
I always disable it globally, then set a few select folders to only
download 'on demand' (offline use) (Inbox, Sent, and a few others).
Not even that.
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