Indexing forever
Hello, I have a large base of e-mails, about 19GB, stored on profile folder located on my external SSD drive. Two days ago Thunderbird stopped to download new e-mails and started "Indexing messages" process which continues since almost 2 days now. I cannot use thunderbird, cannot snooze calendar reminders, however the program is responding. My profile folder was previously used by Thunderbird installed on other computer. I bought a new machine, removed SSD drive from the old one, mounted it as external and I am using the same profile folder by new Thunderbird (path is correct of course). Is it the problem with some broken database or just large ammount of emails so it takes so much time to index? Thank you, regards, Dominik
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I suppose this is one of those USB things. S L O W like molasses pouring on a cold morning as a result.
And then your anti virus is probably scanning the files every time they are updated in an endless cycle of horror.
Result: Virus Scan never ending, indexing never ends and nothing useful ever get a chance to happen.
Copy the profile into the appdata location which anti virus programs and windows are supposed to treat somewhat differently. Or plug your drive into an esata port not usb and make exclusions in your anti virus product.
The major difference when you use USB is there are lots of competing things on that bus, keyboard, mouse, some monitors, printer, network / WiFi etc. So the theoretical data transfer speeds are never realized.
However it may also help to delete all MSF files from the profile folder and the global message db.sqlite file, then the index is not updating old information, it will all be building new.
Matt, thank you for your advice and help, looks like it worked and all is fine now :) Thanks a lot! Have a good one. Dominik