294821 - freeze with 99% CPU usage when I select Junk folder

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Luc Saffre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

It seems that my Junk folder contains something invalid which causes Thunderbird
to freeze as soon as he tries to displzy the folder summary.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start TB
2. Junk folder is bold and appears to contain 350 messages
3. Click on "Junk" folder

Actual Results:  
Hourglass cursor, and CPU usage jumps to 99%. Only solution is to end the
process using Task Manager.

Expected Results:  
Display the messages summary.

Problem appeared suddenly. Upgraded from 1.0 to 1.0.2. Problem still there.

Comment 1

[Luc Saffre]

I "repaired" this by replacing the files Junk and Junk.sbd with empty files
while Thunderbird not running. On next start he first displays still "Junk
(350)", but when I click on it he updates this to display the empty folder.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 307552 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Brandon Petersen]

(In reply to comment #1)

I was able to solve this by right clicking the Junk Folder and choosing 'Compact
Folders'.  Once it was done, I was able to access the Junk Folder without any
problem.