on 12-1-2010 3:57 PM Jerry Geis spake the following: >> >> Um, do you ever log out, or close firefox? For that matter, do you have it >> set to empty trash when done? Or do you ever manually compress >> folders/empty trash? >> >> mark "or just leave it running for a year at a time?" >> >> > NO - your correct I dont log out it's got messages in there from way back. > I'd like to keep them for history. I thought on a 64bit machine there > were no 4G limits. > > > Jerry If you want to keep them, then why delete them in the first place? A trash can is for trash, not archives. Do you bag up the kitchen trash and then put it in the garage just in case you want to look through it?