At Mon, 6 Jun 2005 08:23:46 +0100 (CET), Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 5/6/05 Richard Hart wrote: > >>PM 5.2 works fine for 4 or 5 days. Then, every action begins with a >>spinning beach ball for a few seconds. Then a spinning beach ball for a >>few minutes. Eventually, the beach ball spins forever. The database >>becomes unreadable. >This has started to happen for me also, although mostly when retrieving/ >sending mail. > >I'm wondering whether to go back to my 5.1 version in case my Db gets >corrupted. > >PMac G4/400 OS 10.3.9 704Mb Ram > >Chris > >>I had this identical experience on an iMac, a Dual 2GHz G5, a 733MHz G4, >>and a new iBook. The first uses a dial-up connection, the next two a DSL >>router, and the fourth a wireless connection. The only common link is >>that they are all using OS 10.3.9. >> >>I have reverted them all to PM 5.1, and they are working fine, using a >>backup of the 5.1 version of the databases. >> >>However, the 5.2 databases appear to be unrecoverable. >> >>Richard Hart I've had several similar problems, which accelerated after installing Tiger. After a lot of trouble-shooting and help from Jérôme, I found that trashing the address book database a creating a new one helped a lot. At least fo a while. Now I experience a lot of "beachballing" and more and more often I have to force PM to quit and reopen it again. No database failures yet, though. But my overall feeling is PM doesn't feel completely stable and reliable. Max Gossell -- PowerMail 5.2, build 4388 (SpamSieve 2.3.1) OSX v10.4.1 Dual G4 1.2 GHz / 1GB RAM
