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Bonner: Burglary, fire, electrical damage, not-so-gruntled employees, to name four classic reasons to use offsite storage.

That said, I never trust a single copy of nuthin’. When it comes to backups, think belt-and-suspenders. Carbonite and other similar services aren’t perfect, but they is an easy extra layer of protection that don’t require a lot of time to manage.

One thing to check on is how many generations of backup they keep. For a workstation, a single copy is usually sufficient. For a server, SOS Online Backup offers about the best multi-generation, fully encrypted backups, but it’s expensive and you have to work around your tape backup system to avoid conflicts.

I’ve had good luck with StreamRipper for ripping Shoutcast audio streams using WinAmp. It records both Country AND Western.

There’s a much easier way, from where I sit. Get a free account at LogMeIn and leave your home machine running, with the screen turned off and the machine locked. Then log in remotely when you want to check mail. I can’t remember staying at a hotel that doesn’t have wireless. When you’re done, just lock the machine again and log out. Another advantage of this approach is that you don’t have to worry about copying over all your docs and internet bookmarks between the two machines.

I remember an old line that says “Never ask a man with two wristwatches for the time, because he doesn’t really know for sure.”

Interesting stuff, Mike. I’ll try it.

Thanks.

I’ll try putting his old email away. He’s got about 2000 messages in his inbox. I’ll also try turning off indexing to see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll post back.

Chris, thanks for the post.

Thunderbird is doing something behind the scenes every time it gets a new message. Can’t figure out what it is.

No USB devices at all except for the mouse, a keyboard and a printer. No external drives or flash drives.

This machine is a screamer, an HP business class desktop with 4GB of memory, a big, fast hard disk, Intel Quad core processor and Win 7 Pro with almost nothing running on it except Open Office and Thunderbird. No huge directories, AVG Antivirus with email scanning disabled. Almost no junk running in the system tray, and not much running in the way of processes. The machine is coasting, waiting for something. Maybe the problem is on Yahoo’s end.

This guy doesn’t do much except email. (It’s actually way more horsepower than he needs.)

That’s why this is so mystifying. Really scratching my head. Fetching mail is like watching the duckpond freeze.

Thanks for your reply, David.

1. He has 3.0.4.

2. This is a client with an extremely low tolerance for change. Even a temporary change would freak him out. Good suggestion, but my last option, for reasons completely unrelated to the tech issue. Really.

3. I’ll try reinstalling. I’m also thinking about installing it on another Win7 test machine first, since I leave messages on the server for a while. Should be transparent to the user.

4. No Spam filters in TBird, but probably at Yahoo.

From appearances only, based on nothing but intuition, it seems as though TBird is logging off and logging back on again after each message. But I’m guessing here. Is this possible?

I can’t explain it. Following a comment I found elsewhere, suggesting that the message indexes might have gotten corrupted, I deleted them all and allowed Firebird to rebuild them, but with no improvement.

Something is slowing it down.

You just made my day. Many thanks.

That’s what I had originally thought, but it happens with both bound and unbound labels, using their originally provided field names or modified label values.

I’ve seen this same issue on several applications, Access 2000, XP and 2003, and on a number of different machines. I can’t find anything on Microsoft’s technet about this.

It’s harmless enough, but it’s pretty unpolished and is the source of embarassment to not be able to resolve this issue.

This is a really old post, but it’s still an issue for me. (I was surprised to see the original post was mine.)

I still have the same problem with Access 2003, and Hans is right, it’s not limited to unattached labels. It appears on multiple PC’s, so I don’t think it’s my video card.

Anybody else seeing the same issue?

Just what I was looking for.

Thanks, Hans.

Yes, I dug a little further and found a post that explained it. I had briefly experimented with Exchange Server 2003 on a test basis, and I’ve been putting Duct Tape on things ever since. I broke one of my own rules: never experiment with my main development machine.

Thanks for your reply.

It did, and thanks.

I’m having the same problem. I can see this choice, and “Contacts” is listed, but it’s disabled.

The Contacts list is empty when I’m creating or editing a message.