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Old 22 Jan 2019, 12:30 PM   #4
n5bb
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Arrow Sort by size sorts on largest message in each conversation, not conversation size

After examining the sorting of several folders, I think I see what is bothering you. Here is what I believe is happening with a conversation style display (where individual messages in various folders are shown as one entry in the conversation list):
  • When you choose to sort by size, the conversations are sorted by the largest message in each conversation. So if 5 messages where in a conversation and the size of each of those messages was between 9 MB and 11 MB, that conversation would be sorted as if it was a single message with size 11 MB.
  • The size column at the right in the conversation listing shows the combined size of all messages in that conversation. So in the example above, if the sum of the sizes of the 5 messages was 50 MB you would see 50 MB shown as the conversation size.
Bill
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