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mrwayyne
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Thank you in advance for any help. I am using Thunderbird 115.12.2

I'm on IMAP. I having a working knowledge of Thunderbird, but not a whiz by any means.

Since I have both personal and business emails, I keep them historically. I delete what I don't think I'll ever need to refer to.

When my email storage, gets into the 90's, I get nervous. I go through and delete as many emails as possible, and sometimes manage to get the percentage to go down 1 percent.

So... I'm a little confused. I thought that perhaps this was syncing with the Comcast server, and that the percentage was not for any Thunderbird storage. Is Thunderbird storing on another server?

What should my settings be, so that I can maintain all my email on my computer? I don't need to store it on any server. I'm afraid to make any adjustments for fear of losing email on my computer.

Is there someone who can walk me through this process in steps I can understand? LOL

I know I am set up with IMAP.

Thanks so much!

Wayne

Thank you in advance for any help. I am using Thunderbird 115.12.2 I'm on IMAP. I having a working knowledge of Thunderbird, but not a whiz by any means. Since I have both personal and business emails, I keep them historically. I delete what I don't think I'll ever need to refer to. When my email storage, gets into the 90's, I get nervous. I go through and delete as many emails as possible, and sometimes manage to get the percentage to go down 1 percent. So... I'm a little confused. I thought that perhaps this was syncing with the Comcast server, and that the percentage was not for any Thunderbird storage. Is Thunderbird storing on another server? What should my settings be, so that I can maintain all my email on my computer? I don't need to store it on any server. I'm afraid to make any adjustments for fear of losing email on my computer. Is there someone who can walk me through this process in steps I can understand? LOL I know I am set up with IMAP. Thanks so much! Wayne

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david
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Thunder maintains headers on your computer, and full copies of messages you're working with. When you delete a message, it disappears from your PC and also from the Comcast server. If you want to keep copies of what you delete, you need to first COPY the messages to a local storage folder first. Since you run a business, I encourage frequent backups. I would not trust any proprietary backup software unless you do a thorough test to prove that it works. I see many posts here from users where their fee-paid backup did not work. That may be happening because a backup done while thunderbird is running will usually be corrupt. My personal preference is to do these two steps: - exit thunderbird - copy c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird to external media Then should you ever need a restore, or to move to a new computer, you just need to '\ - install thunderbird and exit - copy the backed up thunderbird folder to c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming to overwrite the initial default.

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