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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by naasking on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:49PM (#18636422)
> This is a frequently heard complaint, but I can't imagine under what circumstances this would happen.

I see it both fast and slow. Ironically it's absurdly slow on my 8-core desktop and just fine on my older dual core laptop (both with SSDs and same accounts, etc). Definitely weird, but this behaviour has peristed for years, so much that I had to disable TB features on my desktop just so I could type without stalling.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mixmastamyk on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:22PM (#18636619)
> first thoughts would be to compact your folders and if that doesn't help, vacuum the sqlite files.

Might also recommend a disk check, perhaps FS needs fixing.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by naasking on Saturday December 08, 2018 @03:43PM (#18637411)
At one point I cleared out all TB folders and started from scratch, problem reappeared, so I don't think that's it. Very strange indeed.
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mixmastamyk on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:38PM (#18637948)
The items mentioned above should be done periodically, not just once. Perhaps there are some giant files in there too?
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by ajdlinux on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:45PM (#18638456)
> The items mentioned above should be done periodically, not just once

While helpful advice - if you need to do this manual maintenance regularly, the application is broken.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mixmastamyk on Sunday December 09, 2018 @12:38PM (#18642081)
Possibly, hard to know over this medium. I’ve never encountered the problem, but added the tasks to my cleanup command.
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by ajdlinux on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:01AM (#18645818)
Not to denigrate the hard work of developers (particularly open source developers) who work on very complex application software like Thunderbird, but software designed for regular users needs to cope without cleanup scripts. (Yes, yes, I know that reinstalling Windows from scratch is a time honoured tradition...)
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by mixmastamyk on Monday December 10, 2018 @11:56AM (#18649221)
Sure. My cleanup script however does multiple things, tbird maintenance is only a tiny part.
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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by JetSpiegel on Saturday December 08, 2018 @07:14PM (#18638314)
Maybe the old folders used mbox, which stuffs entire folders of emails in a single file, while the current stardard (for a while now) is Maildir, a file per email.
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