On 4/12/05 at 7:08 PM, Ben Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>On 12 4 2005 at 6:46 pm -0400, Steve Abrahamson wrote:
>
>>7.3 gigs free.
>>
>>But there was once a day when it was almost filled up, and I believe that
>>the remnants of that day are swiss cheese all over the face of the drive.
>
>Hmmmmmmm. Maybe so.
>
>A full backup, reformat and restore would be the drastic way to resolve
>that... :)
Yeah. But I figure Tiger is just around the corner, so I'll wait and do
the reformat when I install Tiger.
>In any case, back to the issue at hand... are there specific actions in
>PM which exhibit the slow behaviour (compred with others that don't)?
Well, typing in an email is generally pretty responsive (except during
fetching). Queueing an email, saving one, opening one (depending on
circumstances), all have a pause. Clicking on a different folder can take
5-8 seconds to yield a result under any circumstances. Opening or
selecting a piece of email during a fetch can take 8-10 seconds.
Overall, navigation (interacting with the mail browser) seems to be
slowest. Yes, I've rebuilt and compacted the indices and database.
>Have you noticed abnormal slowness under any other circumstances (other
>apps) on your machine?
That's just the thing: no. It's PowerMail that's being a snail, all else
is fine. I can load a web page in a snap while PowerMail is taking 45
seconds to fetch 17 pieces of emails each 1-3k in size (which is
frontmost doesn't seem to have any effect).
This is why I'm looking specifically at what's going on with PowerMail,
and what I can try.
Steve
Steve Abrahamson
Ascending Technologies
FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
http://www.asctech.com
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