So far, a restart is also working for me! (Yay!) I still have the problem where the first launch crashes and I have to 'reopen' from the dialog box though.
--CS >Hi Joseph, >I had similar issues with spinning balls and the message retrieval >process appearing to be hung. > >I did all the usual Powermail fixes, but none worked. > >What did work was restarting my machine. Not sure why? > >So long for now, TOM > >>Joseph Farias wrote: >> >>>It's strange. For awhile I was getting nowhere. I tried a previous >>>backed up mailbase, every suggested fix, reinstalled the program, etc. >>>The reinstall seemed to make it work.... for a short while. It was >>>happening with all my email sources so it couldn't be an incoming >>>corrupt email file. I thought the culprit was DragThing, then even >>>SpamSeive. This morning it was hanging like crazy and had to constantly >>>force quit. Before, it might come unglued after five minutes or so. But >>>now I would give up after 20 minutes of 'spining.' Then without changing >>>anything, it began to work again. Seems to be sporadic but very frustrating. >> >>Since upgrading to MacOS 10.9.1 (yesterday) I have been >>having the same problem where whenever PowerMail retrieves >>a message, I get a spinning beach ball for 10-20 minutes >>or more. Also, I still have the problem where PowerMail >>crashes the first time I open it (from the Finder) and >>then have to select 'Reopen' in order to actually launch >>it. >> >>I rebuilt my search indexes and compacted the >>database..etc with no effect. When I attempted to do a low >>level rebuild, I got a message saying that there was an >>error in doing so. >> >>While the spinning is happening, I have gotten several >>messages that a "memory error occurred": >> >>(index.temp) >>Class=std ; what=1; when=100 >>Class=Cach; what=100; when=7 (index.temp) >>Class=Cach; what=100; when=5 (index.temp) >>Class=FoxT; what=100; when=23 (index) >> >>Any help would be appreciated! >> >> > > >