Thunderbird 68.5.0 frequently builds summary files
We use Thunderbird 68.5.0 in our office, and it builds summary files(.msf) for each email folders for receiving, 2-3 times a week. We put our data (including Thunderbird profiles) on NAS drive, so building summary files slows loading other files. I tried older virsion(52.9.1) and it doesn't have the same problem. How can I prevent rebuilding summary files with latest version?
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given the summary files are the information used to populate the user interface, they are not "mail", but a sort of user interface cache, I would expect them to modified very frequently.
1. Make sure you antivirus software isn't scanning the Thunderbird data profile locations on the file share.
2. Make sure there isn't a time skew issue that would force the summary files to rebuild because of timestamp checks. I forget all the details, but I suspect you will find relevant information in Bug 905576 - TB3 repeatedly rebuilding summary files for many folders when profile(mail directory) is on network drive. (Fileshare server is SAMBA on Linux, Fileshare client is Windows)
Please post your results
Matt said
given the summary files are the information used to populate the user interface, they are not "mail", but a sort of user interface cache, I would expect them to modified very frequently.
Wayne Mery said
1. Make sure you antivirus software isn't scanning the Thunderbird data profile locations on the file share. 2. Make sure there isn't a time skew issue that would force the summary files to rebuild because of timestamp checks. I forget all the details, but I suspect you will find relevant information in Bug 905576 - TB3 repeatedly rebuilding summary files for many folders when profile(mail directory) is on network drive. (Fileshare server is SAMBA on Linux, Fileshare client is Windows)
Thank you. These informations might be helpful. I'll inspect the whole phenomenon again.
Any conclusions?