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After opening Thunderbird it is fast for about 30 seconds, then becomes slow typing a new email and slow scrolling (win10)

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After opening Thunderbird it is fast for about 30 seconds and then becomes really slow.

Typing a new email makes the typed letters appear a few seconds after typing them. Selecting a few emails in my inbox takes half a minute. Thunderbird is regularly 'non responding' for a few seconds.

Even moving through the menu bar is slow! It takes a few seconds for the mouse to catch up!

The rest of my laptop seems ok, it is just thunderbird which is slow.

I have tried to start Thunderbird in Safe-mode, no difference. I have tried to start the laptop in safe mode, no difference. I have tried to start the laptop and thunderbird in safe mode, no difference.

I always empty my junk and trash and have compacted folders.

All my 6 configured accounts are setup as IMAP.

I really don't want to make my inboxes smaller as I have a regular need for the old information.

Please help!

Kind regards,

Iwan

After opening Thunderbird it is fast for about 30 seconds and then becomes really slow. Typing a new email makes the typed letters appear a few seconds after typing them. Selecting a few emails in my inbox takes half a minute. Thunderbird is regularly 'non responding' for a few seconds. Even moving through the menu bar is slow! It takes a few seconds for the mouse to catch up! The rest of my laptop seems ok, it is just thunderbird which is slow. I have tried to start Thunderbird in Safe-mode, no difference. I have tried to start the laptop in safe mode, no difference. I have tried to start the laptop and thunderbird in safe mode, no difference. I always empty my junk and trash and have compacted folders. All my 6 configured accounts are setup as IMAP. I really don't want to make my inboxes smaller as I have a regular need for the old information. Please help! Kind regards, Iwan
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sfhowes said

Do you have any kind of indexing in place or possibly a corrupt global search database? See items 4,5,9 & 10 here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

Thanks Mate,

The "rename global-messages-db.sqlite" and rebuild fixed the issue.

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Do you have any kind of indexing in place or possibly a corrupt global search database? See items 4,5,9 & 10 here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

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sfhowes said

Do you have any kind of indexing in place or possibly a corrupt global search database? See items 4,5,9 & 10 here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Memory_Usage_Problems

Thanks Mate,

The "rename global-messages-db.sqlite" and rebuild fixed the issue.

Wayne Mery
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> The "rename global-messages-db.sqlite" and rebuild fixed the issue.

iwanb,

What was size of the renamed global-messages-db.sqlite file?

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Just over a GB, I did attach a screenshot to this thread... Here it is again