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How can I speed up global search indexing?

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I have a lot of messages I need to get rid of so I'm trying to use the global search to easily locate these messages so I can delete them. Unfortunately, the global search indexer is very slow. It only seems to be able to index about 10 messages a second. I have already tried rebuilding the index by deleting the global-message.db.sqlite file but that only works for a short time. Once the indexing gets to a certain point it grinds to a halt. Is there anything I can do to speed this up and get all my messages indexed quickly? Thanks!

I have a lot of messages I need to get rid of so I'm trying to use the global search to easily locate these messages so I can delete them. Unfortunately, the global search indexer is very slow. It only seems to be able to index about 10 messages a second. I have already tried rebuilding the index by deleting the global-message.db.sqlite file but that only works for a short time. Once the indexing gets to a certain point it grinds to a halt. Is there anything I can do to speed this up and get all my messages indexed quickly? Thanks!

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1. how much memory is thunderbird.exe using when indexing gets slow? 2. is your Thunderbird profile on local disk? Or on a file share or remote disk? 3. Is it also slow if you have Thunderbird started in safe mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode-thunderbird