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Spinning beach ball when composing messages

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DonHammond
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When I compose messages, I get a spinning beach ball every two or three letters that I type. It's an absurdly slow way to communicate to clients, among other things.

I'm running TB 60.6.1 on a MacBook Pro OSX 10.11.6

Two separate email accounts, one personal, one business. Both POP. Email composition problem happens in both.

I have no add-ons or extensions.

When I compose messages, I get a spinning beach ball every two or three letters that I type. It's an absurdly slow way to communicate to clients, among other things. I'm running TB 60.6.1 on a MacBook Pro OSX 10.11.6 Two separate email accounts, one personal, one business. Both POP. Email composition problem happens in both. I have no add-ons or extensions.

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Toad-Hall
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Have you got any Anti-Virus or malware program running that is allowed to scan thunderbird files and folders or outgoing mail ?

What Anti-Virus are you using?

How frequently does Thunderbird auto save to Drafts folder? Thunderbird > Preferences > Composition > 'General' tab Auto save every X? minutes

Right click on 'Drafts' folder and select 'Compact' to remove all traces of old deleted emails to reduce file size and cleanup file.

DonHammond
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Hi Toad,

Thanks for responding.

• I'm not running any antivirus or malware programs • Autosave is every 60 minutes

In System Prefs>Advanced>Network & Disk Space, I've had "Compact all folders when it will save over 1MB in total" checked. I've assumed that was an automatic thing.

However, as you suggested, I manually Compacted the Drafts folder (as well as my inbox,) and now things are running much more smoothly. I don't know if there's a connection.

I neglected to mention initially that this slowness wasn't a problem until I upgraded to the current TB version. Before that I was running an ancient version of TB and there were no problems along these lines.

I'll try compacting folders manually if the problem recurs.

Thanks, Don H