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Tbird v102 Win10 IMAP Indexing Hangs
Thunderbird v102 Win10 IMAP THE PROBLEM: A. Tbird connects to IMAP but has a bouncing ball to the left of the Inbox. B. So I pull down TOOLS > activity mgr > and th… (read more)
Thunderbird v102 Win10 IMAP THE PROBLEM: A. Tbird connects to IMAP but has a bouncing ball to the left of the Inbox. B. So I pull down TOOLS > activity mgr > and the thermometer is stuck on indexing or it sticks on “determining which messages to index.” C. I try to check mail and it’s very very very slow to open the Password Dialog Box. I don’t know if it’ll open or not so I click around and somehow eventually it opens. Barely checks or sends mail and is time consuming. D. Pull down TOOLS > activity mgr > and the Indexing thermometer stays stuck even if I leave it for 30 minutes. E. I should mention I do have a lot of folders and subfolders with a lot of messages.
WHAT I’VE DONE TO SOLVE IT: 1. Ran tbird in safe mode but no improvement. No addons or extensions are installed/enabled. 2. It’s IMAP, so I turned off all the email apps on the iphone but no improvement. 3. ESET antiviral is set to Exclude Thunderbird so I’m thinking it’s not ESET. Ran an ESET scan but found no threats. 4. I cleared the cache. Go to TOOLS > clear history > clear everything 5. Increase the cache size. Go to Tools | Settings | General | Disk Space and checkbox ON "Override automatic cache management" and change the number in "Use up to ___ MB of space for the cache" to 1024. Restart Tbird but no improvement. Restart Win10 but no improvement. 6. I selected a folder I know has lots of messages in it and rightclicked > properties > 780 messages, repair the .msf file. It re downloaded 1350 messages. Restarted Win10 but no improvement. 7. I've read that if I start Win10 in “SafeMode w/Networking” and Tbird connects and speeds up then there may be a software conflict but I did not do that cause I don’t mess with Win10. Never had a conflict before and didn’t make any changes except for Win10 and cCleaner updates as they became available. It's been 6 hrs and I can't figure it out. 8. The next thing for me to do is some house cleaning and delete some messages but that's painstaking and I have no idea if that'll help or not.