{"id":376,"date":"2006-08-23T15:38:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T20:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=376"},"modified":"2006-08-23T21:55:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T02:55:57","slug":"thunderbird-keeps-dying-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/23\/thunderbird-keeps-dying-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird keeps dying on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mozilla.org\/press\/image-library\/thunderbird-wordmark-vertical.png?resize=192%2C244\" alt=\"Thunderbird logo\" align='right' width='192' height='244' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nAll of a sudden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> (which I&#8217;ve used for years and am generally very happy with) keeps crapping out on me at weird times, often when I&#8217;m not even <em>using<\/em> it.  I&#8217;ll be happily working away in some other program, or even away from the computer, and find that Thunderbird has died for no obvious reason.  This is happening on a number of different machines (all Macs) running the latest Thunderbird (1.5.0.5).  In fact I think the problem may have started when I moved up to 1.5.0.5.<\/p>\n<p>Hmph.<\/p>\n<p><em>A few hours later:<\/em>  OK, I think I&#8217;ve solved the problem.  A little forum searching got me thinking that the problem was that my (very large) mailboxes hadn&#8217;t been compacted in about forever.  So I turned on the &#8220;Clean up (&#8216;Expunge&#8217;) Inbox on exit&#8221; option in the account settings.  Since doing that Thunderbird has worked beautifully again, both at the office and at home.  Amazing what a simple little checkbox can do&#8230;<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden Thunderbird (which I&#8217;ve used for years and am generally very happy with) keeps crapping out on me at weird times, often when I&#8217;m not even using it. I&#8217;ll be happily working away in some other program, or even away from the computer, and find that Thunderbird has died for no obvious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/23\/thunderbird-keeps-dying-on-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thunderbird keeps dying on me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-64","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2009\/03\/21\/tweetdeck-shows-me-how-i-want-to-filter-my-e-mail\/","url_meta":{"origin":376,"position":0},"title":"TweetDeck shows me how I want to filter my e-mail!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"21 Mar 09","format":false,"excerpt":"Like most folks these days, I get crap-tons of e-mail. 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