[quote user="aderoy"]

You can set a default on a folder for recovery when xxx space of deleted messages is reached.

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I am aware you can do that. By default it's set to around 20k.

However, for the folder concerned, I don't generally move or delete mail.

I'm just wondering why I was getting an insufficient disk space message while this folder was at around 130 MB with GB's of disk space free.

I'm running Pegasus 4.7. 

Cheers. 

I can't find any reference to this problem in the forums so here's a brief overview. Every week I receive a number of emails with large attachments (up to 35Mb) from my students. Once the contents have been graded, I want to move the original emails into another folder. Normally this works perfectly, but lately I keep getting this error message:

"There is insufficient space available on the drive or volume to complete the current operation. Free up some space on the drive by deleting some files, or if it is a network volume, by arranging for more disk quota to be granted to you."

The drive concerned has almost 2TB of free space and this is a near new standalone PC running Win7Pro 64bit - PMail v4.63. "Compact folders" is set to zero, I've reindexed all of the folders concerned, checked their consistency and recovered deleted space. Nothing works. Has anybody else come across this problem? Any thoughts on what's going on? Help please!

Is it possible the folder where the messages are is at o near the 2GB limit? The folder where you want to move the messages?

Look at toolbar Help, About, Info button display and is there any size limit that may have been set?

Looking at the info panel, the soft limits for message and attachments are both set to zero. The folder in question is 44,720,830 bytes which Wolfram Alpha helpfully translates as only 357.8Mb.

[quote user="DigiDog"]

Looking at the info panel, the soft limits for message and attachments are both set to zero. The folder in question is 44,720,830 bytes which Wolfram Alpha helpfully translates as only 357.8Mb.

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Are both your Home and New mail locations as shown in that info button on your own hard drive of local machine? If not maybe Admin of that drive has limits set.

[quote user="Jerry Wise"]Are both your Home and New mail locations as shown in that info button on your own hard drive of local machine? If not maybe Admin of that drive has limits set. [/quote]

Yep... both locations are set to local drive D: which is almost empty. It's a single PC and while I do run a little wireless network here, I'm the only admin. ;-)

Quite perversely some four hours later PMail has decided to let me move the messages. I didn't change anything apart from I did switch to another ID. Could just one identity be corrupt? And if so, is it possible to somehow reset certain preferences for that ID only?

This is an intermittent error that's been cropping up over the last month or so, so I'd still love to hear any ideas because it will happen again. 

[quote user="DigiDog"]

Looking at the info panel, the soft limits for message and attachments are both set to zero. The folder in question is 44,720,830 bytes which Wolfram Alpha helpfully translates as only 357.8Mb.[/quote]

Some error in translation there ;)

Where are your temporary files going - are they on the same drive?

No... the Windows temp directory is on the C: drive - it's an SSD drive.

... and with lots of free space as well?

[quote user="PaulW"]... and with lots of free space as well?[/quote]

Loads. The 60GB SSD boot drive only runs Windows - 23Gb free

2Tb drive D: 1.7Tb free

1TB data drive E: - 900Gb free

I've got a similar problem.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit with a 200 GB SSD C: drive with 140 GB free,  and a mirrored 4 TB D: data drive with 2.9 TB free.

Pegasus and the new mail folder reside on the SSD while my mail folders reside on the mirrored drive. 

I was getting the same insufficient error message while Pegasus was trying to filter the new mail folder. I located the largest, by volume, mail folder of around 300 MB and then moved the biggest emails to a new mail folder, reducing the mail folder to about 120 MB. Since doing that I haven't had the insufficient error message pop up again. Still early days though, I suspect.

The new mail folder had only about 120 messages in it.

I'm a bit surprised that I've been getting this error message even though none of my drives are anywhere near full, and I didn't think 300 MB was too big for a mail folder.

Seems there is something a little more sinister happening here.

Try to Recover deleted space each email folder within Pegasus. Clear up used/released pointers?

Page 48 in manual, the process does a recover and compress plus consistency check all at once.

[quote user="aderoy"]

Try to Recover deleted space each email folder within Pegasus. Clear up used/released pointers?

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This particular folder doesn't get messages deleted from it, with very few, if any, moved elsewhere.

I have executed a recover on various folders, but generally folders where I regularly delete messages, often being newsletter emails etc. I can't say for sure if I've executed recover on this particular folder.

I have well in excess of 500 mail folders, so I'm not likely to go along and recover all of them. 

Thank you.

Cheers 

A move does a copy then once successful a delete on message.

You can set a default on a folder for recovery when xxx space of deleted messages is reached.

 Just an idea.