Using the most recent Thunderbird, ditto Firefox, the system freezes frequently when I have T/bird and F/fox running at the same time.
F'rinstance today, I left T/bird running while I went to the BBC website. There I filled in an online comment and then tried to close Firefox, which declined to play nicely, and none of the usual rollover dialogue boxes on Mint functions worked - connection speed, state of battery etc just sat there glumly ignoring the mouse pointer. File and Quit on the function bar closed Firefox, but nothing would shift Thunderbird.
Three-fingered salute deleted the last two e-mailsin my inbox...
Had to power-down to regain control, but the e-mails seem to have vanished entirely. (Not in trash, nor in any other folder.)
Anyone any bright ideas? (Apart from not running Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time...)
On 19/01/13 15:08, Anthony Anson wrote:
Had to power-down to regain control, but the e-mails seem to have vanished entirely. (Not in trash, nor in any other folder.)
Anyone any bright ideas? (Apart from not running Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time...)
No idea why the crash, unless you've got a Firefox or Thunderbird plugin that's a bit badly written.
Getting the emails back - you could backing up the Thunderbird folder (just in case), open thunderbird, Right click on the folder in the folders list on the LHS. Click on Properties. On the General Information tab there is a Repair Folder button. Try that.
After that press OK to close the dialog box. Then I suggest right clicking on the folder and clicking Compact.
That may work, or it may not, good luck!
Steve
On 21/01/13 17:08, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
No idea why the crash, unless you've got a Firefox or Thunderbird plugin that's a bit badly written.
It only seems to occur when there are two programs running at the same time - F/fox and T/bird, T/bird and Libre Office.
Since sussing that, I've not had a freeze-up - except outside the front door.
Getting the emails back - you could backing up the Thunderbird folder (just in case), open thunderbird, Right click on the folder in the folders list on the LHS. Click on Properties. On the General Information tab there is a Repair Folder button. Try that.
After that press OK to close the dialog box. Then I suggest right clicking on the folder and clicking Compact.
That may work, or it may not, good luck!
Ah, there isn't a 'General Information' or, AFAICS, a 'repair' option - however, one of the flagged actions is 'Place copy in folder of email being replied to' - which is now unflagged. That would seem to be the promble.
I shall know in an instant...
Thanks for the pointer.
On 21/01/13 19:56, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 21/01/13 17:08, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
No idea why the crash, unless you've got a Firefox or Thunderbird plugin that's a bit badly written.
It only seems to occur when there are two programs running at the same time - F/fox and T/bird, T/bird and Libre Office.
Since sussing that, I've not had a freeze-up - except outside the front door.
Insufficient memory, faulty memory, or insufficient swap space?
Getting the emails back - you could backing up the Thunderbird folder (just in case), open thunderbird, Right click on the folder in the folders list on the LHS. Click on Properties. On the General Information tab there is a Repair Folder button. Try that.
After that press OK to close the dialog box. Then I suggest right clicking on the folder and clicking Compact.
That may work, or it may not, good luck!
Ah, there isn't a 'General Information' or, AFAICS, a 'repair' option
- however, one of the flagged actions is 'Place copy in folder of
email being replied to' - which is now unflagged. That would seem to be the promble.
I shall know in an instant...
Thanks for the pointer.
Er, what version of Tbird? An old one? Those options have been there a while, unless I supose the options are only available for Imap connections, which mine is.
Steve
On 21/01/13 20:03, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 21/01/13 19:56, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 21/01/13 17:08, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
No idea why the crash, unless you've got a Firefox or Thunderbird plugin that's a bit badly written.
It only seems to occur when there are two programs running at the same time - F/fox and T/bird, T/bird and Libre Office.
Since sussing that, I've not had a freeze-up - except outside the front door.
Insufficient memory, faulty memory, or insufficient swap space?
1.5 Gig RAM?
I suppose I *could* test it
2.3 Gig swap?
Should be enough...
My first IBM Compat had 4 MB RAM and IIRC a megabyte of swap. It was a very powerful desktop computer (for its time) having a 40 MB HDD. Anything larger cost a king's ransom. But it ran Linux FT effortlessly.
Most domestic pootery around then had a 20 MB HDD and 2 MB RAM.
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