On 09/28/2012 06:27 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 09/28/2012 05:24 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> At the bottom of the T-bird window, near the right hand corner, there is >> a progress bar that, as far as I know, shows me that T-bird is still >> trying to download some part of an e-mail. This usually relates to >> something with an attachment. >> >> Is there some way to figure out what specific e-mail is still waiting to >> finish downloading something? I've been watching that little lack of >> progress indicator for half the afternoon. I've read and deleted most of >> the e-mail that came in this afternoon, and don't find anything suspicious. >> >> On a possibly related note, I did allow an upgrade to T-bird today >> (Ubuntu, 10.04). >> > You can try emptying your mail trash and compacting the mail folders. > Not doing that regularly can slow things up a bit.
Done. Didn't make any difference. > Also, you "temp" > directory could use trimming. Usually located under "/tmp" Under 100 Mb in use. Nothing obvious to trim. > > After updating, did you restart your Desktop Environment (log out then > back in, usually.) How t do that depends on with DE/WM and if you are > using a graphical login. I restarted T-Bird, but didn't log out and back in. Have just done that, and the progress bar has disappeared. Thanks for the tip. That seems bad form for a Linux tool, though. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
