@burnout426 Reducing the NUMBER of files in store to a third had little effect on the new size of a rebuilt lexicon. Deleting the few large files in store caused the lexicon to change size dramatically, from several times larger than store, to half the size of store. I think it must have been making a bad attempt at finding words in yenc encoding, which would essentially be a 3 million character word, or thousands of very long ones. I used to have binary groups in Opera and it usually coped. I think yenc just confuses it.

I don't really care if there's an 8GB store, but the problem is with a huge amount of random disk access when it's messing about trying to do whatever it's doing. Which puts disk usage to 100% continuously, and slows everything else down. This machine has a rotary drive, but my last one I had Opera on had an SSD, and suffered a similar problem. I don't really like the possibility of wearing out either type of drive, which I'm sure would happen if Opera continued at 100% usage 24/7.

I think I sorted this myself. Deleting many very large news files (300KB to 3.5MB each, total over a GB) from within the store folder, using treesize to help find them, The Lexicon was recreated at 60% of the size of store, instead of 600% of the size. I'm assuming Opera was trying to index yenc attachments (which it can't understand) as text, whereas it successfully ignores mime and uu attachments.

I do wish someone would continue M2 development

Using Opera M2 for email and news (one of each account, mail is POP3), version 1.0, build 1044.

I can find very little info on this, only that the lexicon folder should be the same or smaller than the store folder. My store was 2GB, and my lexicon 8GB (approx). 6 months of emails and news. I closed M2, deleted all store files older than 1 month (approx, I just deleted pre-November), then deleted the lexicon folder. I restarted M2 and it created a new Lexicon folder, and was usable immediately, but it continued to make larger and larger lexicon files, getting up to 8GB again, even though the mail store is now only 1.5GB. Why is it so big?

I'm now trying to find the larger unnecessary files (I think some binary posts were made in a text group, but Opera should handle binaries? - Perhaps yenc encoding messes up the indexer?)

@leocg A decision to remove something useful? To deliberately ignore an OS setting which all other programs follow? A very stupid decision. There is absolutely nothing to gain from ignoring the wishes of the user, and also behaving differently to every other installed program. Hire new staff please.

@leocg So they've decided to ignore OS settings, brilliant. I thought only Microsoft software did that (eg requiring you to click TWICE on an Excel cell to select it if Excel is not in focus). Bug report anyone? I'm fed up of doing them. Whatever happened to software that was tested before release?

Is there a setting in Opera to change the title bar colour? For some reason it's (and it's the only application which does) ignoring the Windows 10 setting I just used to make the active window have a blue title bar (otherwise how am I supposed to know which window is in focus and will react to keyboard input?!) Microsoft screwed this up in Windows 10, but at least I can change it back, but Opera is ignoring the setting! Opera Mail works ok, but I guess that's older and hasn't been broken like Opera browser.

@leocg said in Pasting into address bar adds .com randomly:

This one seems more of a system/universal shortcut. Even in Windows Explorer it will work.

I wonder if it can be disabled in the Windows 10 settings. I guess I could use the third party software autohotkey, but I can't be bothered!

@leocg said in Pasting into address bar adds .com randomly:

I don't think you can.

That would be strange, since there's a huge list of keyboard shortcuts in advanced settings.

@leocg Do you know where I'd find a way to disable CTRL-Enter? Can't see it in keyboard settings, although I'm not sure what it would be labelled as.

@leocg Yes,that's it. Although I wouldn't call it "forgetting", just a fraction of a second inaccuracy, and not expecting yet another of billions of keyboard shortcuts! I'll go disable that one aswell....