[MlMt] spinning beachball of death

[James Galvin]

Well, I have finally reached my breaking point.  Here’s hoping someone 
can help.

In the past 60 minutes (and yes I mean 60 minutes) I have “FORCE 
QUIT” MailMate more than 10 times because it got to the “spinning 
beachball of death”.

I’ve caught up on all the threads over the past year or so regarding 
performance, slowness after upgrading to High Sierra, and the spinning 
pizza.

I even caught Benny’s two suggestions related to all that:

1. delete “everything” in your database and resync MailMate
2. execute the following: sample MailMate 10 -f 
~/Desktop/sample_mailmate.txt

Bad behavior:

I don’t know exactly when it started but I do know it happened prior 
to my High Sierra upgrade.

MailMate arbitrarily finds itself in the “spinning beachball of 
death”.  There is no pattern.  It is random as far as I can tell.  It 
can happen at any moment and after executing any command.  It happens 
3-8 times a day for me and has been for some time.

One thing that has been getting worse that might be useful is that 
deleting messages (doesn’t matter the quantity) starting taking 20 
seconds or more.  Yes, whenever I hit DELETE MailMate goes to the 
spinning beachball for at least 20 seconds.  Since I rarely delete 
messages this hasn’t been a real problem.

Today, for the first time, I opened my laptop and MailMate immediately 
went to the “spinning beachball of death”.  This is the first time I 
remember it doing this without having executed a command first.

Over the recent holiday I completely deleted my entire MailMate 
database, as recommended in a prior thread on this list by Benny, and 
resynced everything.  I enjoyed about 5 days of blissful email before 
MailMate went rogue.

What’s next:

I have collected 6 samples as previously suggested in other threads from 
MailMate over the past 2 days, all when it is in “spinning beachball 
of death” mode just prior to my “FORCE QUIT”.  I will send those 
to Benny immediately following this message privately.

This is my environment:

MailMate
Version 1.10 (5443)

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012)
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

I sure do hope I can get past this.

Thanks!

Jim