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Bug compactage dossier

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Katola
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Voici un message récurrent alors que j'ai fait le ménage partout... Le dossier « Courrier entrant » ne peut être compacté à cause d’une erreur d’écriture. Vérifiez qu’il reste assez d’espace disque et que vous possédez le droit

Merci d'avance pour votre réponse.

Voici un message récurrent alors que j'ai fait le ménage partout... Le dossier « Courrier entrant » ne peut être compacté à cause d’une erreur d’écriture. Vérifiez qu’il reste assez d’espace disque et que vous possédez le droit Merci d'avance pour votre réponse.

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re: The "Incoming mail" folder can not be compacted due to a writing error. Make sure there is enough disk space and you have the right permissions'

There could be a couple of reasons, but if the Inbox is corrupted then you may start to lose emails.

Please do the following:

  • Move all wanted good emails out of the 'Inbox' and into other suitable folders for organising and storage. Do not put in a subfolder of Inbox.

When you have moved everthing you want to keep.....

Make hidden files and folders visible:

In Thunderbird

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information
  • click on 'show folder' button

a new window opens showing the contents of your profile name folder.

  • Close Thunderbird now this is important.

Pop mail accounts are kept in the 'Mail' folder. Imap mail accounts are kept in the 'ImapMail' folder.

Assuming this a POP mail account

  • click on 'Mail' folder
  • click on pop mail account name folder

Delete these files: 'Inbox' mbox file with no extension - this contains emails, but in your case you have moved everything you want to keep. 'Inbox.msf' file. This is just an indexing record of the 'Inbox' file.

  • Close window - top right x
  • Start Thunderbird.

A new 'Inbox' and 'Inbox.msf' file will be created.

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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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re: The "Incoming mail" folder can not be compacted due to a writing error. Make sure there is enough disk space and you have the right permissions'

There could be a couple of reasons, but if the Inbox is corrupted then you may start to lose emails.

Please do the following:

  • Move all wanted good emails out of the 'Inbox' and into other suitable folders for organising and storage. Do not put in a subfolder of Inbox.

When you have moved everthing you want to keep.....

Make hidden files and folders visible:

In Thunderbird

  • Help > Troubleshooting Information
  • click on 'show folder' button

a new window opens showing the contents of your profile name folder.

  • Close Thunderbird now this is important.

Pop mail accounts are kept in the 'Mail' folder. Imap mail accounts are kept in the 'ImapMail' folder.

Assuming this a POP mail account

  • click on 'Mail' folder
  • click on pop mail account name folder

Delete these files: 'Inbox' mbox file with no extension - this contains emails, but in your case you have moved everything you want to keep. 'Inbox.msf' file. This is just an indexing record of the 'Inbox' file.

  • Close window - top right x
  • Start Thunderbird.

A new 'Inbox' and 'Inbox.msf' file will be created.