Inbox.msf

Skip

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Jul 6, 2007, 8:59:05 AM7/6/07

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With the last upgrade of Thunderbird, everytime spam is determined and
moved to the junk folder I get an error box which says:

"There was an errror truncating the Inbox after filtering a message
folder to Trash. You may need to shutdown Thunderbird and delete INBOX.msf

I have deleted INBOX.msf in all the folders on numerous occasions but
yet the error always returns.

Any ideas?

Terry R.

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Jul 6, 2007, 12:28:53 PM7/6/07

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On 7/6/2007 5:59 AM On a whim, Skip pounded out on the keyboard

Hi Skip,

Try this. Right click on the Inbox in TB and select, Compact Folder.
After that is complete, right click Inbox, select Properties, and under
the General Information tab, click Rebuild Index.

What do you mean you have deleted inbox.msf "in all the folders"?

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Jul 6, 2007, 1:17:37 PM7/6/07

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Skip wrote:
> I have deleted INBOX.msf in all the folders on numerous occasions but
> yet the error always returns.

when you delete, you are doing so with the program closed,
right?

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Skip

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Jul 6, 2007, 9:54:32 PM7/6/07

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In answer to both previous posts:

I've deleted the INBOX.msf file for each of the email accounts

Yup...closed program before deletion

Thanks guys!

Skip

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Jul 6, 2007, 9:59:07 PM7/6/07

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Terry R. wrote:
> On 7/6/2007 5:59 AM On a whim, Skip pounded out on the keyboard
>
>> With the last upgrade of Thunderbird, everytime spam is determined and
>> moved to the junk folder I get an error box which says:
>>
>> "There was an errror truncating the Inbox after filtering a message
>> folder to Trash. You may need to shutdown Thunderbird and delete
>> INBOX.msf
>>
>> I have deleted INBOX.msf in all the folders on numerous occasions but
>> yet the error always returns.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Hi Skip,
>
> Try this. Right click on the Inbox in TB and select, Compact Folder.
> After that is complete, right click Inbox, select Properties, and under
> the General Information tab, click Rebuild Index.
>
> What do you mean you have deleted inbox.msf "in all the folders"?
>

Terry:

Maybe I'm missing something but I do not see a Rebuild Index under
General Info. All I get is Character Encoding

-skip

Ken Whiton

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Jul 7, 2007, 12:36:28 AM7/7/07

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*-* On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:59:07 -0400,
*-* In Article u_6dnTiTDvv7bhPb...@mozilla.org,
*-* Skip wrote
*-* About Re: Inbox.msf

> Terry R. wrote:

[ ... ]

>> Hi Skip,

>> Try this. Right click on the Inbox in TB and select, Compact
>> Folder. After that is complete, right click Inbox, select
>> Properties, and under the General Information tab, click Rebuild
>> Index.

>> What do you mean you have deleted inbox.msf "in all the folders"?

> Terry:

> Maybe I'm missing something

You're not. :-)

> but I do not see a Rebuild Index under
> General Info. All I get is Character Encoding

Rebuild Index is a new option in TB2. Since you're running
1.5.0.12 it's not available to you.

Ken Whiton

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