ATTENTION: 9.51 - DO _NOT_ UPGRADE! - SUPER MAJOR PROBLEM

[Andrew Rybenkov]

I upgraded to 9.51. And now Opera is not usable.
It starts and never shows itself.

Process Explorer (by Mark Russinovich)
shows Opera loads CPU up to 100%, shuffling all the way
2 opera/mail/omail...dat files.

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Andrew Rybenkov

mailed by Outlook Express

[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

Op Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:09:36 +0200 schreef Andrew Rybenkov
<aryb...@hotmail.com>:

> I upgraded to 9.51. And now Opera is not usable.
> It starts and never shows itself.
>
> Process Explorer (by Mark Russinovich)
> shows Opera loads CPU up to 100%, shuffling all the way
> 2 opera/mail/omail...dat files.

Was mail working properly for you in 9.50?

Note there is only one file called omailbase.dat, so I don't know you mean
with 'shuffling'.

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say rather than actually watching what they do." -- J.Nielsen

[Andrew Rybenkov]

> Was mail working properly for you in 9.50?

most certainly yes

> Note there is only one file called omailbase.dat, so I don't know you mean
> with 'shuffling'.

during start-up Opera opens 2 omail.. dat files. Unfortunately Process Explorer shows
_short_ filenames. One of the files is omailbase.dat-j.

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[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

Op Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:34:19 +0200 schreef Andrew Rybenkov
<aryb...@hotmail.com>:

>> Was mail working properly for you in 9.50?

>
> most certainly yes
>
>> Note there is only one file called omailbase.dat, so I don't know you
>> mean with 'shuffling'.
>
> during start-up Opera opens 2 omail.. dat files. Unfortunately Process
> Explorer shows
> _short_ filenames. One of the files is omailbase.dat-j.

Try a system restart... I just saw a bug report about a HP printer driver
interfering with Opera Mail initialization. No idea if that's related to
your issue of course.

[Andrew Rybenkov]

I was able to start Opera at last, after erasing that
omailbase.dat-j file.

And what? I lost all my mail.

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[Andrew Rybenkov]

> I just saw a bug report about a HP printer driver interfering with Opera
> Mail initialization.

btw I do have a HP printer (LJ-1300), but it never gave me headaches.

[Ed Jay]

Andrew Rybenkov wrote:

>I was able to start Opera at last, after erasing that
>omailbase.dat-j file.
>
>And what? I lost all my mail.

Surely, you had a backup?

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[Andrew Rybenkov]

> Surely, you had a backup?

well, no.
Fortunately, Gmail, Hotmail work properly, as well as Outlook Express.
(Gmail more or less properly ;)

[Tim Altman]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:35:40 +0400, "Andrew Rybenkov"
<aryb...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I was able to start Opera at last, after erasing that
>omailbase.dat-j file.
>
>And what? I lost all my mail.

Yes, you would. You deleted part of your mail database.

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[Andrew Rybenkov]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:30:59 +0400, Tim Altman <do....@spam.me.invalid>
wrote:

> You deleted part of your mail database.

I deleted file (.dat-j) that already had _zero_ length.

[Steve Thackery]

> btw I do have a HP printer (LJ-1300), but it never gave me headaches.

That's something of a miracle, then. I've used 'em enough times - HP make
great printers and *lousy* drivers.

SteveT