On 9/25/17 3:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
had to go back and reread spec - now I have to figure out how thunderbird messed up - sigh..
If you haven't done a Compact on the source folder yet, the original messages are still in Thunderbird's local copy of the folder. A folder is just one file of all the messages concatenated together.
The messages just have their status updated so that they'll be deleted when a Compact is done. Compact simply makes a new copy of the folder file, skipping over the deleted messages.
Depending on how big the folder file is your biggest challenge can be finding a text editor or some way of scripting to handle the file.
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