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Not enough disk space to download email

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Swaasje
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While archiving Thunderbird gives all the time not enough disk space I searched information, increased the cache. Checked files, nothing is more than 3GB It is still doing archives but it is scary to have this message appearing every minute. I have enough disk space. What is this space Thunderbird is talking about?

While archiving Thunderbird gives all the time not enough disk space I searched information, increased the cache. Checked files, nothing is more than 3GB It is still doing archives but it is scary to have this message appearing every minute. I have enough disk space. What is this space Thunderbird is talking about?

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Might just be the space is temporarily unavailable. Some background task on the operating system, indexing or anti virus activity may be locking the file and causing a space issue. I would suggest you start be disabling your anti virus from scanning files in your Thunderbird profile folder and see if that might be the cause.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_where-is-my-profile-stored

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Matt
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Might just be the space is temporarily unavailable. Some background task on the operating system, indexing or anti virus activity may be locking the file and causing a space issue. I would suggest you start be disabling your anti virus from scanning files in your Thunderbird profile folder and see if that might be the cause.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_where-is-my-profile-stored

Swaasje
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It's a new computer and i didn't install a anti virus software yet.