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After the upgrade from version 5 to 6, "clear recent history" hangs indefinetly.

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If I attempt to manually clear history, I can do that one site at a time. That takes about 5 seconds. If I attempt to clear > 20 sites, sometimes it works (after about a 3-5 minute wait), and sometimes it hangs (a time period, which, IMO, exceeds 20 minutes).

There was a site which simply would not clear (from last July) no matter what I did. I believe it was "The Other McCain", but I can't swear to that, and it no longer appears in my list of history options.

If I attempt to manually clear history, I can do that one site at a time. That takes about 5 seconds. If I attempt to clear > 20 sites, sometimes it works (after about a 3-5 minute wait), and sometimes it hangs (a time period, which, IMO, exceeds 20 minutes). There was a site which simply would not clear (from last July) no matter what I did. I believe it was "The Other McCain", but I can't swear to that, and it no longer appears in my list of history options.

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How many history items do you see in the History Manager (Library)?

  • History > Show All History

A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.

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Thanks for the pointers!

From the link, it was suggested I rename "places.sqlite" to "places.sqlite.corrupt". I already had one of those -- dated May 5th of this year. I deleted that, renamed places.sqlite to places.sqlite.corrupt, then tried "Tools->Clear Recent History->Everything".

Seemed to work OK. I'll know more after I build up some history and attempt to clear everything again.

An alternative solution which involved downloading a command-line SQL program seemed problematic, especially because it suggested using a SQL statement involving "DELETE WHERE LIKE". Since I'm not sure what I'm looking for to begin with, "LIKE" didn't sound very good.

Since I wanted to clear everything anyway, just deleting (or renaming) the file seemed the most sensible.

Which, of course, begs the question: why would you want to keep and potentially restore a ".corrupt" file?

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You're welcome