Hello,
For years, through many versions of TB on several different iterations of hardware, I've had problems with TB freezing for up to two minutes when I am in the editor window and I give the focus to another window, then give the focus back to the editor window. I've also occasionally had the same problem when merely opening TB itself. I've also had freezing problems when moving the TB editor window from one of my six monitors to another. I've contacted support many times but they've been unable to come up with a solution since most of the time they cannot duplicate the problem.
I then got the idea that maybe TB simply cannot handle large amounts of data in the account directories and spends a lot of time thrashing and re-thrashing through it, so I decided to reduce the number of emails to see if that helped. I have always had TB configured to compact and purge upon program exit. My biggest Program Mail Directory is 13.8GB and it contains 14 Account Home Directories of various sizes. I went through my account trees in TB's GUI and deleted all emails in every folder in all 14 accounts. To my surprise, the Program Mail Directory still indicated over 10GB. I assume this must be due to TB saving a record of something pertaining to all previous emails so it won't reload them each time it looks for new emails. However, I'm afraid to simply start deleting files I don't know anything about.
I always use POP3 and have TB configured to delete files upon download from the server, so I don't care anything about saving information about previous emails. What can I do to clean out TBs history without disturbing its settings? I did a fresh install of TB and the Program Mail Directory was only about 336KB. Even after recreating some of my previous accounts and getting 100 emails it is still only about 4MB.
Thank you,
Ray
For years, through many versions of TB on several different iterations of hardware, I've had problems with TB freezing for up to two minutes when I am in the editor window and I give the focus to another window, then give the focus back to the editor window. I've also occasionally had the same problem when merely opening TB itself. I've also had freezing problems when moving the TB editor window from one of my six monitors to another. I've contacted support many times but they've been unable to come up with a solution since most of the time they cannot duplicate the problem.
I then got the idea that maybe TB simply cannot handle large amounts of data in the account directories and spends a lot of time thrashing and re-thrashing through it, so I decided to reduce the number of emails to see if that helped. I have always had TB configured to compact and purge upon program exit. My biggest Program Mail Directory is 13.8GB and it contains 14 Account Home Directories of various sizes. I went through my account trees in TB's GUI and deleted all emails in every folder in all 14 accounts. To my surprise, the Program Mail Directory still indicated over 10GB. I assume this must be due to TB saving a record of something pertaining to all previous emails so it won't reload them each time it looks for new emails. However, I'm afraid to simply start deleting files I don't know anything about.
I always use POP3 and have TB configured to delete files upon download from the server, so I don't care anything about saving information about previous emails. What can I do to clean out TBs history without disturbing its settings? I did a fresh install of TB and the Program Mail Directory was only about 336KB. Even after recreating some of my previous accounts and getting 100 emails it is still only about 4MB.
Thank you,
Ray
Edited: - 03 November 2023 22:55:22
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