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I want to move a lot of gmails to the Bin but keep them in local folders. An answer to someone else's problem said to be sure the local folder contains a true copy and not just a link, by checking that I could read it, but how do I do that for several thousand emails? Maybe they are all true copies in at least in one local folder? I need to remove a large chunk of 25000 gmails in All Mail to free up space on my hard disk. I was having problems with Global Search and followed instructions to re-index everything. Apart from taking several hours to index All Mail, I subsequently found that I could no longer get 2GB free space by using Disk Cleanup, the best I could get was about 300MB, which is apparently too small for Thunderbird to compact All Mail, or for Dropbox to sync with my mobile phone camera photos. The All Mail file in C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\hgwapwu4.default\ImapMail\imap.gmail.com\[Gmail].sbd is 4.5GB, and Important is 1GB

I want to move a lot of gmails to the Bin but keep them in local folders. An answer to someone else's problem said to be sure the local folder contains a true copy and not just a link, by checking that I could read it, but how do I do that for several thousand emails? Maybe they are all true copies in at least in one local folder? I need to remove a large chunk of 25000 gmails in All Mail to free up space on my hard disk. I was having problems with Global Search and followed instructions to re-index everything. Apart from taking several hours to index All Mail, I subsequently found that I could no longer get 2GB free space by using Disk Cleanup, the best I could get was about 300MB, which is apparently too small for Thunderbird to compact All Mail, or for Dropbox to sync with my mobile phone camera photos. The All Mail file in C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\hgwapwu4.default\ImapMail\imap.gmail.com\[Gmail].sbd is 4.5GB, and Important is 1GB

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Generally, I recommend unsubscribing from AllMail because it has duplicates of all messages in inbox, sent, etc. - and also increases thunderbird overhead of keeping it in sync. To save messages for an IMAP account, and have the full content, I recommend - click account settings>synchronization&storage - click 'advanced' button and mark desired folders for offline use - click File>offline>download sync - now, highlight and COPY the messages you want saved in Local Folders. Do NOT use MOVE.

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Generally, I recommend unsubscribing from AllMail because it has duplicates of all messages in inbox, sent, etc. - and also increases thunderbird overhead of keeping it in sync. To save messages for an IMAP account, and have the full content, I recommend - click account settings>synchronization&storage - click 'advanced' button and mark desired folders for offline use - click File>offline>download sync - now, highlight and COPY the messages you want saved in Local Folders. Do NOT use MOVE.

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Thanks. This gave me back 1.5GB on my hard drive though those files are still the same size.

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