Kim Kirwan wrote: > > I am running Thunderbird 3.1.7 with some plug-ins (Lightning, Enigmail, > and four minor ones) and have not had any of the kind of problems you > are describing. But I did check into the address book format (I have > five address books left to move) and I learned about the "mork" > database (arguably the worst feature of Thunderbird, they've been > arguing about the best replacement for it for years now, with no > visible progress, No individual file is over 120 MB. Yes, Mork seems to be the culprit, but TB rev 2.x doesn't even HAVE the indexing feature - (or maybe, I don't THINK it has it because there is no way to turn it off). Anyway, TB 3.1.1 had the same problem, only it took 8 times longer to recover when it hung (67 minutes instead of 80, even when the indexing was turned off. So, I don't think it was indexing. For a long time, I have thought it was related to newsgroups, as I subscribe to rec.crafts.metalworking, and opening that group always takes a number of minutes, and leaves a HUGE file of 600,000 message headers on my system.
Anyway, after creating a new profile, it seems to be working fine. Just a lot of work to move everything over. I am back to using TB 2.0.0.22, I prefer the whole screen layout to TB 3, but likely there is a way to set TB 3 to look about the same, I just don't know how. I have been using Netscape, then Mozilla, then Thunderbird on Linux systems since, maybe 2002 or so. But, it seems that TB users are having the same problem on Windows. Thanks, Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
