On 2013-07-16 10:02 (GMT-0400) Michael Lueck composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Not a fix, just a suggestion for the future: Back up daily.
Well, I do weekly backups on Saturday... this was to be the last email sent prior to weekly mailbox compaction, then backup.
Forgot another suggestion. I compact more often than I empty trash. For each and every empty trash (normally 20-30 minutes after midnight) I immediately follow with compact. If I find some fool has emailed me binaries, after deleting attached binaries I compact the folder they showed up in before deleting the offending email.
I know of no way to gracefully exit Mozilla products via command line. I leave SM up "all the time", though have to restart it periodically due some blasted folder memory leak, disappearing child folders. To mask that, I can open a new SM mail window instance and at least the folders show up again. Sluggish folder open/close performance requires a restart however.
I don't see any obvious signs of any Gecko leaking any significant amount of memory. I keep 5 of them open spread across 8 virtual desktops in the same DE 24/7, save for daily restarts and backups of the profile used for email. Maybe your problem is confined to 64 bit, or maybe the fault is in permissions or XFS or Ubuntu or its Pango or Gnome or mushrooming disk space consumption by saving email with binaries attached or ????
Using Linux, the only time I've needed to restore from backup is due to disappearance of a folder due to an accidental drag.
Jah, I am suspecting I detected I "accidentally started to drag", realized what SM thought I meant, stopped, and it was too late. :-(
When I catch myself accidentally dragging, I drag the pointer outside the window or to an obviously illegal location before releasing any button.
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