Ubuntu
thunderbird package

  1. Bug #927515
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 927515

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Markus W (z-mw) wrote : Re: thunderbird uses excessive cpu power

Had the exact same issue as comment #11 including log spamming and can confirm that deleting the empty file 'global-messages-db.sqlite-journal' in my Thunderbird account folder resolved the issue.

This was under Ubuntu 12.04 with Thunderbird 14 and encrypted home directory.