Taking back my Thunderbird

I recently cleaned out my mail. Funny how does 50-80 emails in my inbox without attachements become 500MB when looking at the Inbox file.

So opening Thunderbird again I created a new folder called inboxtemp. Then I moved all my inbox mail to this folder. This should show no mail in my inbox. (um no dont check mail til later).

Closed out Thunderbird. Windows showed the inboxtemp file at 1 MB, and the Inbox file at still over 500, but less 1 MB. Hmm...some hiding of my mail I thought deleted perhaps?

In anycase I deleted Inbox and Inbox.msf and inboxtemp.msf summary files and sent them to my windows trash. Renamed inboxtemp to Inbox.

Opened up Thunderbird again and viola, no visible change in my mail, but i saved over half a gig of space. Now I wonder what would happend to those who have large attachements they thing they are getting rid of.

In the end when I want mail deleted, I want it gone so I can save space. Not sure how Outlook handles this, but am sure its an easier process with Thunderbird than outlook.

As a side point, I opened the log file in my Dr Watson folder "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson" and since i have error handling turned off, had been accruing a rather large file on errors. 27MB in fact. So i deleted the error logs and have suffered no ill affects.

I did note however that the drwtsn32.log file had te following info in it - hmm now that has to flout PIPEDA (Canada's Privacy Act). XXX where you insert your computer name and etc...

Computer Name: XXX
User Name: XXX
Terminal Session Id: 0
Number of Processors: 2
Processor Type: x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4
Windows Version: 5.1
Current Build: 2600
Service Pack: 1
Current Type: Multiprocessor Free
Registered Organization:
Registered Owner: Todd V. Yeadon

Thats it for today. Been a great and busy summer so time I got back on the posting trail to my throng of non readers.