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Ed What the hell is wrong with gmail?

Ron_Tomkins

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This has become more and more frequent, up to the point where it happens virtually every day:

I receive daily Word documents as part of my work. Every morning I will load gmail, open my e-mail and download the Word file. The Download window will open and I see the downloading progress happening very fast indeed... and then.... just as the bar is about to finish........... .......... it............... ............. stops right there, a few centimeters from the finish line.

So I try going back to Inbox and it won't load. Basically gmail has crashed. I have to close it (and sometimes go to the extent of having to close Safari) and open it again.

Sometimes when I do so, I find that the e-mails that I had already opened appear as unopened again. As if I had never read them and deleted them. As if nothing had happened.

This wouldn't be so annoying if it wasn't becoming so ridiculously commonplace, up to the point when it has become the rule, and the exception being when gmail behaves normally.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone know what the hell is wrong with gmail?
 
Ron_Tomkins said:
This has become more and more frequent, up to the point where it happens virtually every day:

I receive daily Word documents as part of my work. Every morning I will load gmail, open my e-mail and download the Word file. The Download window will open and I see the downloading progress happening very fast indeed... and then.... just as the bar is about to finish........... .......... it............... ............. stops right there, a few centimeters from the finish line.

So I try going back to Inbox and it won't load. Basically gmail has crashed. I have to close it (and sometimes go to the extent of having to close Safari) and open it again.

Sometimes when I do so, I find that the e-mails that I had already opened appear as unopened again. As if I had never read them and deleted them. As if nothing had happened.

This wouldn't be so annoying if it wasn't becoming so ridiculously commonplace, up to the point when it has become the rule, and the exception being when gmail behaves normally.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone know what the hell is wrong with gmail?
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I've used gmail for years and have never seen the problem you describe.

In light of that, best fix is: use Firefox or Chrome. I find more and more IE9 crashes if you even look at it funny, just today I was unable to view a portion of my company's intranet which is IE only, because I had IE9 instead of IE8 installed.

Also, you can try the "View Attachment" rather than "Download Attachment" link, which should render the attachment using Google Docs. Its not a solution, but should at least allow you to view your attachments.
 
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Dessi said:
I've used gmail for years and have never seen the problem you describe.

In light of that, best fix is: use Firefox or Chrome. I find more and more IE9 crashes if you even look at it funny, just today I was unable to view a portion of my company's intranet which is IE only, because I had IE9 instead of IE8 installed.

Also, you can try the "View Attachment" rather than "Download Attachment" link, which should render the attachment using Google Docs. Its not a solution, but should at least allow you to view your attachments.
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He's not using IE. He's using Safari.

Ron -- That is an odd issue, and one I've not seen with Safari before. It may be that there's an issue with your internet connection where you're suffering enough packet loss to confuse the downloader. I also don't know how up to date your Safari is, you may need to update it.

Try the downloads with another browser, and see if you have the same issue. Firefox is a pretty good standby. Google has some interesting compatibility issues with Safari -- ones that really can't be explained by much other than to ponder whether or not their competition in the portable device OS venue might have something to do with it.
 
It sounds as though there's a consistency issue in there somewhere. The client and server seem to be disagreeing about what events have transpired. Such a thing could certainly be caused by the problems tesscaline suggested.
 
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Safari? I'm assuming a Mac which I know little about but if the problem is attachments I'd consider looking where the attachments are downloading to (/tmp if it's unix-based or a personal area with a quota?) or if you have a virus scanner is it glitching on the scan?
 
tesscaline said:
He's not using IE. He's using Safari.

Ron -- That is an odd issue, and one I've not seen with Safari before. It may be that there's an issue with your internet connection where you're suffering enough packet loss to confuse the downloader. I also don't know how up to date your Safari is, you may need to update it.

Try the downloads with another browser, and see if you have the same issue. Firefox is a pretty good standby. Google has some interesting compatibility issues with Safari -- ones that really can't be explained by much other than to ponder whether or not their competition in the portable device OS venue might have something to do with it.
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I'll try the downloads tomorrow monday (When I get my next packet of work) with Safari and report back.

In the meantime, I'll try updating Safari and see if it works.
 
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