Thunderbird 3.0 comes with a very nice and powerful global search functionality. For this when you fist start the thunderbird 3.0 after installation, it will try to index all the messages in your your inbox and folders, which will kill your machine and stop you from doing anything else on your machine. If you want to stop that and only want to run the indexer only when you are away from machine then you can disable the indexing task by going to Tools-> Options..->Advanced-> Uncheck the box “Enable Global Search and Indexer”, which will stop the indexing and global search functionality. Note that once the complete initial indexing is done, you don’t have to disable this option as the thunderbird 3.0 just does the incremental indexing when ever there is a new mail.
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January 7th, 2010at 5:12 am(#)
Thanks! This was helpful! I hate this feature, because as you said, it keeps me from doing anything else.
March 10th, 2010at 5:27 am(#)
I hate this feature too..
It should not be on by default….
activating this by default was a total mistake by mozilla.
May 17th, 2010at 10:08 am(#)
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May 23rd, 2010at 8:41 am(#)
Who knows that it would end up eating valuable Hard Drive real-estate.
Mr. Thunderbird adding 2 GB to an already overcrowded system drive is not polite! Who gave you that permission?
I think the designers should be shot for doing this! Who advised such a thing?
Auto-indexing in Thunderbird should be switched off and also that it should have a message telling people that it will eat up lot of your computers storage.
Cheers!
Jon