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Delay moving messages to and from certain mailboxes

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Wayne Mery replied
AlBridger
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It's very odd. Normally moving an email, say from the Inbox to the relevant year's archive, takes "no time at all".

Which is true for all the mailboxes shown on the attached screenshot, EXCEPT for the four at the bottom. Moving even one message from Inbox to Yiddish can take ten seconds or longer (with the dreaded "Not Responding" occasionally). Moving something in the opposite direction is also screwy, only from those four.

I had thought that it was because they're rather large. This first started when there were just Yiddish and MSW, and I split off most of the earlier years into the archives shown. To no avail.

It's only an annoyance, but I'm puzzled about how such a thing could happen.

Also very slow tagging or untagging a message just in those mailboxes.

It's very odd. Normally moving an email, say from the Inbox to the relevant year's archive, takes "no time at all". Which is true for all the mailboxes shown on the attached screenshot, EXCEPT for the four at the bottom. Moving even one message from Inbox to Yiddish can take ten seconds or longer (with the dreaded "Not Responding" occasionally). Moving something in the opposite direction is also screwy, only from those four. I had thought that it was because they're rather large. This first started when there were just Yiddish and MSW, and I split off most of the earlier years into the archives shown. To no avail. It's only an annoyance, but I'm puzzled about how such a thing could happen. Also very slow tagging or untagging a message just in those mailboxes.
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AlBridger
AlBridger Umnini wombuzo

Just as a test I added a new mailbox aaaa which appeared between Outbox and MSW. Moving messages into and out of aaaa works as it ought to. So what's special about the four slow ones?

It might be that aaaa is very small, but MSW and Yiddish aren't nearly as large as the yearly archive files, where message transfer works quickly.

Wayne Mery
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Does the problem reproduce when you run with Help > Troubleshooting Mode? (do not enable any of the checkboxes when prompted during the start)

AlBridger
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Still took about 8-10 seconds to move a message from Inbox to Yiddish. Avoided the Not Responding hiccup, but not different.

I had "repaired" those mailboxes in response to an earlier suggestion.

Thanks for trying.

Wayne Mery
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What is your version number? How many messages in each of these folders?

AlBridger
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152.0 (64-bit) with W10.

2025 951 messages 2026 665 MSW 98 MSW Archive 2066 Yiddish 304 Yiddish Archive 5934

Wayne Mery
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Thanks for the numbers. Those are not large folders.

Please do the key and menu sequence alt > file > offline > work offline > download now.

Now move one message timed with a clock. How many seconds?

  • If it is not slow, repeat and test a few more messages.

To get back to normal mode alt > file > offline > you should see that "work offline" has a check mark > click on "work offline" Move one message timed with a clock. How many seconds?

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