Errol Smith wrote:
This hang is caused by SM 'helpfully' calculating how much disk space
you would save if you compacted all your folders after you just deleted
something.
Go to Preferences > Mail & Newsgroups > Network & Storage
and untick "Compact folders when it will save....".
Then it won't do it any more.
And remember to manually compact your mail folders once in a while.
YMMV.
Rickles wrote:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1
SeaMonkey/2.4.1.
Others have complained about SM appearing to hang, or at least take a
ridiculously long time to do something as simple as delete an email. I'd
never seen it before, until today.
Normally the PC's been on most of the day while I've been at work, but
today the house was empty all day & I was the first home. Turned PC on
and left it un-logged in for approx. an hour.
Logged in, waited for systray icons to all appear showing all 'run' apps
completed, and opened SM Mail. It opened, downloaded 3 short text
messages. The wife read one message over my shoulder, said that message
could be deleted. So I did, or thought so, anyway.
Pressed delete key but message stayed in Inbox. Checked Deleted folder,
empty. Went back to Inbox, but only Folder pane showed any
content--thread & message panes were both blank. Assumed some background
process was taking up processor time, but Task Manager showed 99% system
idle time, and there was no network traffic.
No background CPU takeover, no scheduled tasks running, no busy network.
I left it ticking over for a full 5 minutes without change, then closed
the SM Mail window (browser never open). Verified seamonkey.exe process
was absent from Task Manager and re-opened Mail--deleted same message
again and it worked perfectly, and for everything after that.
Suggestions?
Forgive me for being obtuse, but what's the point of having that setting
available when it 'freezes' SM into complete inaction? If SM was tied
up making the calculations at every Delete action, I'd expect to see
system resources being used for it, but when SM freezes, the rest of the
PC is normal. If I'm not doing anything else with it, the PC resources
show 99% idle. If SM is busy with disc access and space calculations,
where's the evidence? As far as I can tell, SM is 'stuck' at this point.
If you read further along in the thread as posted, you'll see that once
I threw out the Trash.msf file, everything has gone back to normal in
all respects. The only confusing part I ran into was that the 'Deleted'
folder in the Folder Pane view of Mail doesn't point to a 'Deleted' file
under the profile. It points to a 'Trash' file, but there's nothing in
the GUI to tell you that. Process of elimination is all I had to find
it out. In all other cases, the name of a folder in the Folder Pane is
the same as the file(s) on the hard drive where the profile is stored.
But for 'Deleted' that's not the case.
Minor point, but it took a few extra minutes to work out. My suggestion
for anyone experiencing issues with SM mail freezing is to shut down SM
and delete MSF files in their profile's Mail directory, then restart SM.
The MSF files are indexes which will be rebuilt when SM starts again.
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