Reffer tu zee system tips fur a descreepshun ooff %USERPROFILE% thing; yuoo will also need tu adjust
Windows Explorer setteengs tu shoo hidden objects - zee
Application Data folder is hidden frum feeoo with zee deffoolt system
setteengs.
XXXXXXXX.default - here-a X uny letteror noomber
Inside thees profile folder yuoo shuoold find a subfolder fur each
yuoor
mail accuoonts und another one fur "Local Folders". Each
ooff those
contains a bunch ooff files with zee names matching yuoor Thunderbird
folder names.
Each Thunderbird mail folder is stored in two files named after zee
folder name:
File with no extension stores email messeges in zee plain text
format, one after one. Thees file is lerger than zee MSF index.
A corresponding (smeller) .MSF file contains mail
folder indexes und prefference data. Thunderbird figures oooot
what part ooff zee messege tu be displayed, zee order ooff messeges
within a folder, und zee like - ell based on zee .MSF file informashun.
It is impurtant tu nute-a that .MSF files do not contain uny email
messeges und, ell in ell, are redundant. Thunderbird will rebuild
.MSF files es needed iff they are missing.
Messege folder size limitashuns
Zee total size ooff ell zee emails stored in a single folder cannot exceed
4GB. Thees includes uny items deleted after zee last compakshun took
place.
Tu compact a folder in Thunderbird, right click that folder und
select "Compact" frum a popup menu. Thees shuoold be done periodicelly
(once in several months perhaps).