01-25-2024 05:37 AM
for two years i have been fighting a thunderbird bug. you would think after that long you would have fixed it. when i delete an email it takes up to 5 seconds to delete. the program just freezes during that time. it has to do with the windows virus program not working with thunderbird. 5 or 6 times a day i have to go into windows security and disable real time scan and then it works fine. the problem is windows realtime scan wont stay disabled. is there a work around?
01-25-2024 03:12 PM
Most ways to disable it would endanger your system.
The best way is getting yourself a real antivirus program.
01-28-2024 11:03 PM
I use bitdefender and and worked fine until the latest update. Now it is unusable. Multiselect to delete just deletes a single message in the selected group, which takes forever, and deleting single messages takes a minimum of 5 sec
02-05-2024 05:47 AM
I have the same problem, using Win11
02-05-2024 06:01 AM
i wonder if they will ever fix it or if they even care? they keep asking me for a donation but u have been fighting this for years and nothing has been fixed and i cant get a response out of them.
04-19-2024 06:01 AM
I used to love Thunderbird. Now since they "updated" it, this deletion issue makes it annoying and almost unusable. It is NOT my OS or the computer. This started happening with the last update. Please restore the old method of deletions. It actually worked.
04-30-2024 05:08 PM
For Windows Anti-Virus got to:
Virus & Threat Protection Settings > Exclusions > Add or remove Exclusions
Add following folders: (Just adding the Local folder didn't work for me)
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles
06-05-2024 01:29 PM
I did exactly as you said and restarted the Thunderbird email client and the slow delete problem was fixed. Now works again as expected. Thanks so much!
06-14-2024 09:26 AM
It works. It fixes the slow delete problem. But by excluding those Local Folders from the Antivirus Protection we do not put our system at risk by not having the AV analysing the content of the email we receive?