delete attachment when i delete email
I find it very irritating that when i open an attachment in a mail for the second time, thunderbird puts a second file in my prescribe folder on my disk. It is also very irritating that when i delete an email the attachment still stay's on my harddrive. I want to have this as an option, not a default setting by thunderbird. I have 20 Gigabytes of attachments and most of it is not necessary anymore. but it is impossible to scan if a saved file belongs to a "archived email" or a deleted email.
please solve this !!!!
best regards
fred kieboom
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When Thunderbird opens an attachment it is supposed to be created in a temp folder and deleted once the helper application is closed. I have heard from many OSX users that they apparently have attachments saved to a designated folder when opened. But I have no idea why. But I guess the Temp envorinment variable on OSX point to somewhere that no longer exists or is missing entirely.
An attachment is not removed from the email when opened, unless you specifically select detach, so I think what your saying is you can delete the whole 20Gb because you still have the attachment in the email, or do not want it because you deleted the corresponding email.
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When Thunderbird opens an attachment it is supposed to be created in a temp folder and deleted once the helper application is closed. I have heard from many OSX users that they apparently have attachments saved to a designated folder when opened. But I have no idea why. But I guess the Temp envorinment variable on OSX point to somewhere that no longer exists or is missing entirely.
An attachment is not removed from the email when opened, unless you specifically select detach, so I think what your saying is you can delete the whole 20Gb because you still have the attachment in the email, or do not want it because you deleted the corresponding email.