MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 04/07/2012 10:05, Daniel told the world:
Klaus Weber wrote:
Windows XP
For several weeks I realize that seamonkey crashes very often never
asking for a crash report. Sometimes it happens when I change an address
in the address book or when I want to send an e-mail often also at other
times. What could be the reason? My mail folders are meanwhile quite
big. Could that be a reason? Thanks for any advice.
Klaus Weber
Klaus, whilst its no guarantee, having very big mail folders have caused
problems in the past.
First steps would be to File->Empty Trash then File->Compact Folders. Do
this, see how things go and come back here if still problems.
To clear up a point, the size of an *individual* folder sometimes is an
issue; the *aggregate* size of all your mail folders together usually
does not cause problems. Also, number of e-mails may be more important
than the actual size in kilobytes; meaning that a folder that archives a
text-only, high-traffic mail list may be more troublesome than one where
you have just a few messages with humongous attachments -- even if the
former is smaller than the later.
McBastos, *if* the _number_ of e-mails *is* the determining factor,
rather than the _size_ of the e-mails, I wonder if the problem is with
the index file, inbox.msf, rather than the actual mail folder, inbox??
I have this habit of once a year having a look at my mail folders and
moving lots of old messages to "long-term archive" subfolders (usually
one per year on high-traffic folders). Since those subfolders only
rarely get changed (and therefore almost never have to be compacted),
this speeds folder compacting a lot, too.
In my e-mail profile, I manually move e-mails from the inbox into
several folders, e.g. 2012_Family or 2012_Jokes, and then, early in new
year, I move these folders to under the Local Folders, my "long-term
archive".
Keeps the inbox pretty clean!
--
Daniel
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