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Do you have the "Global Search and Indexer" turned off? It is found in Preferences / Advanced tab / General - disable and then restart Tbird. Global search is
by gvb 16y ago
Do you have the "Global Search and Indexer" turned off? It is found in Preferences / Advanced tab / General - disable and then restart Tbird.
Global search is an evil POS.
- _delirium 16y agoWell, if you turn it off, you no longer incur the periodic indexing overhead, but then the search really will be slow. With global indexing on, I can search tens of thousands of messages in several hundred folders in a few seconds; with it off, a search over all folders will never return and I have to kill TB.