Summary: | after crash certain settings are lost | ||
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Product: | Claws Mail (GTK 2) | Reporter: | whats_up |
Component: | Other | Assignee: | users |
Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | off |
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 3.7.6 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Linux |
Description
whats_up
2011-06-15 12:55:50 UTC
Try changing the 'meta-data handling' option. What works best depends on the underlying filesystem. I've noticed this quite a bit myself. Font settings can definitely be lost. The state of deleted (but not expunged) messages too, though I can understand that that's a different kettle of fish. I have Safer handling enabled. where can I find the 'meta-data handling' option? whats_up@..., here's how to find the "meta-data handling" option: Open menu "Configuration > Preferences", select page "Miscellaneous" (below section "other"). The "meta-data handling" option lets you choose between "safer" and "faster". Think of it as disabling / enabling a write-cache that accumulates your setting changes in memory before they are firmly written to disk. IMHO "safer" on a modern system shouldn't make a notable difference in speed... That option controlls fsync'ing stuff to disc, so it may very well make quite a difference, especially on modern filesystems. ok found. But the 'meta-data handling' option was already 'save' in my case. The problem seems to be somewhere else... I also noticed this loss of information after a crash: - read status of new messages is lost - replied-to status is lost - the messages list position is reset to the top (IIRC) This happened to me yesterday, several hours after I had read the messages, so both claws-mail and the filesystem had plenty of time to write the information to disk. OS: Arch Linux 64 bit Filesystem: ext4 (with commit=30) Claws-mail: 3.9.1 Metadata handling: Safer |