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Since this morning my Thunderbird is not responding - everytime I try to open or send an email it stops responding & is really slow and I have to close. Fix?

MDTAX
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Since this morning my Thunderbird is not responding - everytime I try to open or send an email it stops responding & is really slow and I have to close. I have tried deleting the global-messages-db.sqlite but it does nothing. Any ideas?

Since this morning my Thunderbird is not responding - everytime I try to open or send an email it stops responding & is really slow and I have to close. I have tried deleting the global-messages-db.sqlite but it does nothing. Any ideas?

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Check if this happens in safe mode:

Did you try compact your email?

And repair the folder?

  • Click with right button mouse on Inbox >> Properties >> Repair Folder
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Diego Victor
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Chosen Solution

Check if this happens in safe mode:

Did you try compact your email?

And repair the folder?

  • Click with right button mouse on Inbox >> Properties >> Repair Folder

Modified by Diego Victor

MDTAX
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Thank you for the answer. Actually I found the problem - it had to do with my antivirus software McAfee. I had to turn off automatic scanning of emails and now it works just fine. There's a problem with Thunderbird and McAffee interfacing... hopefully it will be fixed soon. Thank you.

maggiemae802
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This solution does NOT work for me. I'm still getting slow load, freezing, "Not Responding" messages. This started happening after the most recent update. I'm on TB 24.4.0