[Discuss] Thunderbird freezes

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 03/28/2013 06:37 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> The freeze I usually see is that when I am typing...
> That's probably the auto save to your drafts folder. (I see that too
> when I run TB on old hardware.)
>
> Is your drafts folder local or remote? (If remote, that might be your
> problem.) When was the last time you compacted it?
>
>
>> My drafts folder is currently empty.
> Empty as viewed from with TB or a zero byte file when viewed from the
> file system?
0 bytes. I have autosave turned off.

>
>
>> The default draft folder is the local folders draft.
> Good. And you've verified that the setting isn't overridden in the
> account you are sending from?
I did find that one of my accounts had the drafts folder on the server, 
but the freezes occur even when I am typing on another account. In any 
case all drafts now go to local folders. And, I have a fairly recent 
Opteron quad core system.


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