Just ran into this yesterday with one of my users. Hundreds of GB of disk space consumed by NSTMP files. Found, then deleted all but oldest and newest files (just in case), and this brought back his system, possibly better than before. I thought this was fixed already. He was using current version of Thunderbird.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2060534 Title: Thunderbird doesn't always clean nstmp cache files Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Fix Released Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Environment: Thunderbird 124.0 64bits installed as SNAP on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 3 gmail imap account This (monday) morning Ubuntu notify me that I was running out of disk space, and while I was checking where the problem was, the disk analyzer told me the answer snap/thunderbird/common directory has a size of more than 360GB, pretty strange since my gmail account have 15GB and 30GB of quota (half used more or less) One of them is a shared one we use for notfication with almost 100k emails, flow is very high since with my team we receive emails, handle and archive them. I tryed to compact database, keep on disk only latest 90 days email but the sistem started to suffer issues due to no disk space so that I tried to remove that account and instantly more than 250GB of data on disk disappeared. Issue found and fixed but: - Thunderbird should NOT use so much disk space, some cleanup process MUST be implemented to keep disk usage under control, as I wrote system usage is impaired - Is this issue index-related? Since I do a lot of quick search on that account - Is something snap/linux related? Could be found also on Windows/Mac? - If someone needs logs, I'd be happy to provide them but I need instructions about how to retrieve them. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/2060534/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
