Hi all, I've been using the potable version of Thunderbird on a flash drive for several months now. This morning when I tried to launch Thunderbird it took nearly a 1/2 hour to open up. Once it opened up I compacted the mailboxes. I also followed the advice of another post and found and deleted the MSF files. Unfortunately, neither fix has cured the problem. It still takes forever to open the program. Task Manager indicates that the program is loading nearly 120,000K of data into memory before the progarm will open. Any suggstions as to what the heck has happened and how to fix it. Thanks in advance.
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You probably have a corrupted mimetypes, upgrade to the latest PA release (not auto-upgrade of Thunderbird itself) and it'll fix it.
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I have traced the slow start of Thunderbird (2.0.0.19) to the "Lightening"(0.9) add-on. More specifically to Lightening's "storage.sdb" file which is the calenders database.
The file is normally less than 600 KB but has recently swollen to 10,000+ KB. When I deleted the file Thunderbird opened normally. Of course all of my calender data was gone.
I restored the file from a back up and got some of my calender information back, however, after a short while the file started to grow in size again causing Thunderbird to take longer and longer to launch.
I guess my next question is does anyone know what might be causing this and what to do about it? Thanks.
It turns out the problem was with an attachment to one of the calendar entries. I used the SQLite add-on in Firefox to investigate the storgare.sdb file. I found 97,000 instances of the attachment. I couldn't figure out how to delete all 97,000 entries at once, so I exported the table containing the attachment as a csv file. I edited the csv file in NotePad deleting the 97,000 instances of the attachment. I imported the csv file back into the storage.sdb database. I opened Thunderbird and all was well.