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Rodney Sampson wrote:
All:
Can I re-install SM 2.33.1 over current install without de-install,
or do I need to
de-install / re-install ?
And do you think it might help given the errors below ?
My experience is that uninstall/reinstall probably won't do anything,
unless you have reason to believe that there is corruption in either the
program binaries or Windows registry. Normally, if you uninstall, your
user profiles are not removed, and I think that chances are high that
you'll still be seeing problems.
The most frequent source of performance issues with Mozilla apps tends
to be related to user profiles, and for that, Safe Mode or a new profile
are a good test. From previous postings you've made, I believe you've
tried Safe Mode. If you haven't seen results there, then that would
probably eliminate the common problems of either misbehaving extensions
and/or things from odd settings in your prefs.js file.
Have you tried Safe Mode on all your profiles? Safe Mode or not, are
there any profiles that behave better than others?
If you haven't done so already, I would suggest to see what kind of
performance you get off a newly-created profile. If performance issues
aren't there, then it's likely that there's something relating to your
data, especially if you have large mail stores. If you still have
performance issues, then that's indicative of something system-related,
that's not Seamonkey.
If you have system-related stuff, then you're looking at things such as
drivers, or disk integrity questions, and from quotes of previous
conversation, I see that you've spent time looking at those. One other
thing -- how are you on disk space usage? Assuming that you're using a
traditional hard drive, if it's more than half full, you will start
seeing performance slowdowns for anything on your computer, and if the
disk is at more than 75% capacity, you should consider it to be
essentially "full", and there will be noticeable performance issues.
Thus, if you tend to be a "pack rat" sort that saves everything, then
you may need to make a choice between moving or deleting some of what
you have saved to other media, or moving to another hard drive.
There is one hardware-related thing that's worth looking at: you might
want to see what happens when you turn off hardware acceleration in
SeaMonkey. On my own setup, a number of years ago, I was having problems
with odd display of fonts, and disabling acceleration, fixed the
problem, with no other apparent performance issues. More recently, with
the release of Thunderbird 38.0.1, I've seen a number of reports of
people experiencing speed or stability issues, and for many of those,
disabling acceleration seems to have resolved those problems. Doing this
may or may not do anything for you, but it's worth a try.
Reading between the lines, my suspicion is that where you're having
problems is coming from the mail side. If you normally use POP, and have
multi-GB mail stores, that might be the place to look.
Several things I suggest:
1) In the folders pane in the mail client, enable the display that
allows you to see not only the number of new messages, but the total
number of messages, and the size of your folders. Click on the icon at
the top of the pane's scroll bar, to select all three.
2) Pare down the size of large folders, especially Inbox, Sent Mail and
Trash. There is debate about performance issues relating to large
folders-- some are insistent that folders should be kept small, and
others report very large folders, with no performance issues, at all. My
own experience indicates the latter, but my personal preference is for
smaller folders. In any case, the pre-defined folders are not intended
for long-term archival storage. (In decades past, that was probably more
of an issue than it is with current systems.) If you don't normally sort
messages into folders, use the capacity for Archive, which will move
messages into an archive folder, and out of your pre-defined folders. In
a similar way, some advocate against having sub-folders in your Inbox,
although I haven't seen problems with doing that.
3) Look for messages with attachments, and consider either detaching the
attachments (where the content is only on your hard drive) or deleting
entirely. If you frequently send messages with attachments, it's good to
get into the habit of deleting the attachment from the copy of the
message that gets saved in the Sent folder. The attachment is already on
your hard drive, and there's no point in taking up space in your mail
store, with a duplicate copy of that content.
4) After you've deleted messages, moved to another folder, or deleted
attachments, don't forget to compress the folders that have deleted
content. When a message is deleted, initially, only the folder's index
is updated, and deleted content is not physically removed from the
underlying folder file (and on your hard drive, a folder is a
MBOX-format file, not a true folder), until the folder has been
compressed, and the index rebuilt.
Beyond your browser and mail client, one other suggestion -- if you're a
collector of digital media (photos, downloaded videos, music, etc.)
consider relocating that stuff to other media (external hard drive, DVD,
etc), rather than keeping them on your primary hard drive. That content
is important, but your primary hard drive is a poor place for long-term
archival storage, especially for content that you don't *need* to access
frequently. Yes, it's convenient to have it all in one place, but if
that convenience may come at the cost making id difficult for you to
actually use the computer. Remember that your operating system and your
applications need working space, and if they don't have enough space,
then it will make things difficult for you.
I'm not discounting the possibility that you may have hardware issues
with your machine, and I'm not going to go there, but at the same time,
I don't think your problems with Seamonkey are with Seamonkey itself;
rather, that there may be things that require user-level tuning, and
that where Seamonkey is merely the point where you're seeing the symptoms.
Smith
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