bo1953 wrote:
Hello all - my issue is a corrupted SM suite.
I Am getting upwards of 150 - 200 popstate's at each running of SM.
Several years ago, when this happened, I had to uninstall and reinstall
the program...
I was hoping to avoid that, if at all possible, but will if not possible.
This situation has been happening for the last few weeks and is very
frustrating, to say the least...
Don't bother with uninstall/reinstall -- that's only useful if you have
positive reason to believe that program binaries and/or registry entries
are corrupt. That may have been something that was necessary for XP
machines, but since Windows Vista and later (i.e., Windows 6.x systems),
that's normally a waste of time.
Almost always, problems of this nature are related to your user profile.
And unless you zap your profile when you uninstall, the problem data
will still be there after you reinstall.
Before you start playing with things, make sure you get a backup of your
complete profile. In Windows, you want to copy the contents of
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey -- that will get all your profiles.
The first place to start is with Safe Mode: Help -> Restart with Add-ons
disabled. That will not only temporarily disable your extensions, but
put many of your personal prefs back to default status. I've found that
sometimes, a one-off run in Safe Mode is enough to clear problems.
If Safe Mode clears things, and problems come back when you restart in
normal mode, Safe Mode also has an option to do a reset, which commits
Safe Mode settings permanently.
My guess is that your problem is with one of the underlying SQLite
databases -- probably needing reindexing. I haven't dug down to that
level that I know much of the detail, but my suspicion is that if you do
a reset, then that's going to force rebuild/reindexing of those databases.
If you're really desperate, you can try building a new profile, although
for Seamonkey, that takes a little more work than it would for Firefox,
because you're having to migrate both browser and mail configurations.
What you get with doing a new profile is that you can build a new
profile without disturbing the old profile. And in the process of the
new profile, you can copy data incrementally -- e.g., prefs.js,
bookmarks, mail store, contacts, etc. one at a time, where you still
have the existing profile to work from. Thus, copy one feature from the
old profile to the new one, then verify it behaving in the new profile,
before copying another feature (and when you're working at file/folder
level, make sure that Seamonkey isn't running -- never copy files
to/from a running profile).
Smith
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