NS 7.02 ~ Slowed; Hung Up; then *Crashed*...

Trials & Tribulations with NS 7.02 ~

The highlights:

Loaded 7.02 on a Windows 98 SE machine running 4.79. All was well - old e-mails + Bookmarks loaded into 7.02 just fine.
Oh Happie Daze!

Several days of getting aquainted and successful surfing.

After a loooong session of surfing, using two or three open NS page windows; I noticed 7.02 had slowed down - long delays in reading / closing e-mails + pages taking 2 minutes to load & display...
"Closed" all open windows and mail...
Somebody *hung up* and wouldn't close - did a CNTL + ALT + DEL and NetScape was *not responding*... Ended Task.
Re-started NetScape 7.02 and ~
NUTS! Lost the Bookmarks. Put em back in with Ramona's help; and...
*Away We Go*! Back up to speed - everything *works* again.

Had this happen a few times since - If I shut all open windows *soon* enough - we can re-start without loosing anything and All Is Well...

Friday things changed...
Browsing & E-mail slowed;
I closed windows - two of em *hung up* and required C+A+D closure...
AND NETSCP *still* shownig as running.
Did a C+A+D End Task on that.

Re-Started NS 7.02...
Uhhhh-Oooooh... No Bookmarks (again)...
Annnnd ~ NS7.02 *No Workie* no more...
The Control Panel of NS 7.02 displays OK; but it
will not *DO* anything - cursor even hangs up and jumps instead of *glides* across screen + won't *click* on anything.

Soooo ~
What's da *FIX* ??
Un-install NS 7.02 using Windows remove program;
or go *in* and try to repair things?

*IF* I un-install 7.02 - will BookMarks and stored E-mails fall back into NS 4.79 without loosing anything?
Presently - all BookMarks and all e-mails ARE Alive & Well and accessable via NS 4.79.

Suggestions - Please!

 

Hi Phred,

Well heck, this is not good news! Let's try a few simple workarounds:

Disable "empty trash on exit"
EDIT|MAIL & NEWS ACCOUNTS|ACCOUNT SETTINGS|SERVER SETTINGS

What Theme are you using? If it is any Theme other than Modern, then change back to the Modern Theme.

If neither of these workarounds help, then I would Creat a New Profile

Post back and let us know if you continue to have problems.

Ramona

 

Is... It... *working*... ???

Ramona ~~

Not sure if I believe this or not - but
NS 7.02 *seems* to have recovered... ??

Since the Friday melt-down, the puter's been bugging me and trying to run a disk check every time it starts up - I let it have it's way this AM...

WHAT SAY!?? A Bad Sector... OMG!
Involving file: \Mozilla\Profiles\meName\gibberish.SLT\Mail\MailServ~1.com\Inbox.MSF
Ya don't say!
Sure; go ahead an FixIt...
Did a DeFrag for the heck of it, too...

All done - I peeked at 7.02's Profile stuff in "gibberish.SLT...
Hmmmm, *Looks* OK (Like as if I know what "looks OK "...)
Made a backup of the Whole Profile File...
Looks like I copied bout 30mB of e-mails... Oh Well....

Fired up NS 4.79 - Still works and e-mails seem to be intact.

Shut down 4.79; took a DEEP breath; and fired up 7.02...
OMG#2... It opened up e-mail and a browser window!
Wonder if they *work*??

YEP!! 7.02 seems to work again!
E-mails there; browser works (using it (7.02) to compose this!)

Soooo....
Was the 7.02 Flakeyness due to the failing Sector - or did 7.02 *smack* the HD on it's way to the melt-down?
Prolly only the Puter Godz will know.



Your suggestions...
Disable "empty trash on exit "...
Forgot to look - but I don't think it WAS active - always have a full trash file unless I manually *dump* it.

"What Theme am I using? "
Now there's a Neat Question!

Cuz I dunnow - and 7.02 doesn't seem to want to tell me...

Edit - Appearance - Themes > lists 2 "Themes to Use" - Modern and Classic - with neither one HiLighted, Checked, Underlined - nuffin!
Under "View" - they both show up again - with neither marked nor checked...

I don't remember choosing or selecting a Theme - I think I took what was offered without actually checking anything.

As for the HD problem - that is now the First and Only *bad Sector* on the drive - -
Wonder if that is a warning of things to come... HOPE not!

Any thoughts on WHY?? 7.02 seems to slow down after a few hours of browsing??

That slow down is the only bad vibe that pre-warns of a later lock-up of the 7.02 browser. And it's a little bit difficult to detect that it IS slowing down...

Phred