At 11:26 AM -0700 8/16/03, Rob McNair-Huff wrote: >Are others seeing PowerMail 4.2b1 slow down in regular usage the longer >they keep the program running? I made the switch back to PowerMail from >Eudora 6 betas last weekend, and what I have seen is that after running >PM 4.2b1 for 12-24 hours that the application gets very sluggish with >many spinning beach balls when I do something as basic as deleting a >message from the database. Even moving from one message to another in a >mailbox is very sluggish - on par with the speed deficiencies I used to >see when I last tried using Mail.app. So far it appears that quitting >PowerMail and restarting it returns things to their normal speedy state.
I found that even quitting wasn't helping. I was hearing drive access on every click, and constant stalls and spinning beach balls. Then I remembered that I could rebuild the database. I quit and relaunched, holding down command-option. The rebuild screen comes up and I selected everything in the top section except the low level rebuild (figuring I could do that later if I had to). It took a few minutes and when it was done, PM was smooth and fast again. No spinning beach balls, instant response with little to no disk churning. -- Judi Sohn http://www.momathome.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.momathome.com/viewfromhome (weblog) iChat/AIM: JudiS217
