Attachment save slow - Thunderbird

Symptoms

In Windows, when trying to save an email attachment, Thunderbird appears to hang for 10-45 seconds. It may appear that Thunderbird won't recover, but if you wait long enough, you are presented with a dialog box that lets you choose where to save the file (or the file is saved, if your Thunderbird preferences are set to always save to a specific location.)

Solution

Although I am not sure what causes this, it can be corrected by deleting your downloads.rdf file in your profile folder.

External Links

• How To Manage Profiles: which will give you information on locating your profile so you can find the downloads.rdf file.
• Forum article dealing with this issue.