Move "empty deleted items from mailboxes" to the top of the list; only takes a minute and may do the job.
Wow, okay that worked. The Dr. had about 30,000 deleted messages, since 2010. I guess we had deleted them once before, because we have been using AC since 2008.
These are the times I measure before -> after deleting:
On machine machine: 14s -> 2.5s
On laptop, fresh login: 25s -> 2.5s
On laptop, re-login: 45s -> 2.5s
Interesting that it slowed down the laptop so much more. But with the problem fixed login on the laptop is the same as the main machine. I asked the Dr. about doing on auto-delete-on-logout and she said no, she does fairly often have to retrieve a delete item from a few days a go.
So I guess we just have to do this monthly or something.
This is really a design flaw with AC. It should not slow down so much from deleted items.
Thanks for all the suggestions. Probably we could optimize things even more but 2.5 seconds I think is good enough. Way better than 45s which is what the Dr. was putting up with.
