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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / January 2007Eudora and beach ball
For some time now, Eudora has been giving me the beach ball for no apparent reason. The only solution is to force quit. I've done the usual: trash the preferences, trash the settings, reinstall from scratch, slim down my mailboxes, etc. Nothing seems to work. Lately, I'm having to force quit several times a day and it's becoming a pain. Any idea what could cause that? Eudora 6.2.4 (paid version) OS X (10.4.8) René > For some time now, Eudora has been giving me the beach ball for no > apparent reason. The only solution is to force quit. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > pain. > Any idea what could cause that File system corruption. Make sure Disk Utility approves of your file system. Another cause, possibly due to file system corruption, could be a corrupted mailbox. If repairing your file system doesn't solve the problem, retore your mailboxes from your back-up. Another cause might be some other software that is messing up Eudora. Boot your Mac in Safe Mode (hold the Shift key during the boot process). If the problem disappears, some other software is messing up Eudora.  SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" > > For some time now, Eudora has been giving me the beach ball for no > > apparent reason. The only solution is to force quit. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > File system corruption. Make sure Disk Utility approves of your file > system. That's always the first thing I do (along with running Disk Warrior), but that makes no difference here. > Another cause, possibly due to file system corruption, could be a > corrupted mailbox. If repairing your file system doesn't solve the > problem, retore your mailboxes from your back-up. I didn't think of that. > Another cause might be some other software that is messing up Eudora. > Boot your Mac in Safe Mode (hold the Shift key during the boot process). > If the problem disappears, some other software is messing up Eudora. Such a tedious process of elimination works best when the problem is constant, but since it is completely random it would probably be an exercise in frustration and futility. Besides, I need to get my work done, and since I have only one Mac it's less of a hassle to simply force quit Eudora once in a while. > For some time now, Eudora has been giving me the beach ball for no > apparent reason. Ugh. The dreaded beach ball. You have my sympathies. > The only solution is to force quit. > I've done the usual: trash the preferences, trash the settings, > reinstall from scratch, slim down my mailboxes, etc. Those are the usual remedies, yes. The In box, Out box, and (I think) Trash are the ones that tend to be the most problematic (as you probably know, but I will say anyway, just in case). The only other things I can think of are that it is conflict with some other program -- have you installed anything new recently? or some kind of internet issue. Is there any pattern to when you get the beach ball? Roberta SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > For some time now, Eudora has been giving me the beach ball for no > > apparent reason. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Trash are the ones that tend to be the most problematic (as you probably > know, but I will say anyway, just in case). Yes, but reinstalling Eudora creates new boxes and that has not solved the problem in the past. > The only other things I can think of are that it is conflict with some > other program -- have you installed anything new recently? I often install new stuff, and any case the problem started months ago so that I couldn't possibly know what new installation could have caused it. or some kind > of internet issue. Is there any pattern to when you get the beach ball? No apparent pattern. However, since I trashed my mailboxes and created new ones (following Sander's advice) the problem seems to have disappeared. > Roberta > For some time now, Eudora has been giving me the beach ball for no > apparent reason. The only solution is to force quit. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > René Do you have any anti-Virus software installed? We use Sophos around here and once the in/out/trash/junk mailboxes start to get really large, then the beachball comes up whenever we start sending/receiving mail. The only recourse here is to either: 1) Compact the 4 mailboxes (usually works for a while) or archive mail in those mailboxes to some other non-active mailbox files. 2) Set those files as "exclusions" in Sophos -- which works at this point just as well. - Steve |
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