What to do when your Thunderbird freaks out

[David J Berube]

Hey all,

Could very well be. I found more references to it on the net, but not 
with any particular common theme. Come to think of it, I imagine that if 
it broke every time there was a >250mb folder, it'd be more widespread.

It's also possible it was linked to threaded view. I turned on threads 
for the first time ever last night, and next time I started Thunderbird, 
it freaked out. (Incidentally, I experienced no incremental slowdown - 
just a sudden extreme delay in building summary files linked with an 
inability to view emails .)

It's also possible I had some other reason for corruption; possibly a 
bad byte or two or three in the file. Of course, splitting up the files 
fixed it, so...

Take it easy,

-- 

David Berube
Berube Consulting
djberube at berubeconsulting.com
(603)-485-9622
http://www.berubeconsulting.com/


Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> David,
>
> A friend of mine (Lukas Grunwald, a security expert from Germany) is sitting
> beside me and he says that his email folder is 6.8 GBytes.
>
> He suggests that it may be the filesystem you are using, and if it is fragmented
> or if you have a particular type of journaling turned on, that may be the
> problem.
>
> FWIIW
>
> md
>