Eudora 6.x: flickering Qualcomm logo

I have now seen two Eudora installations, involving versions 6.0.? and 6.1.2.0, in which the Qualcomm logo at the lower right of the screen will begin to flicker irregularly. Further operations in Eudora become impossible, and the program will hang if not closed immediately. When Eudora hangs, it may or may not hang the entire system.

In Win XP (running on an AMD Duron 750), closing a mailbox folder seems to trigger the bug (if that's what it is) every time. Sending a message will likely do so, but not every time. When the bug appears, CPU use goes to 100%, most of it taken up by Eudora.

A previous machine (a P60 running Win 98SE) also exhibited the same behaviour, which did not reappear when the hard drive was re-partitioned and the same software re-installed.

I have found no other way to deal with the bug other than closing Eudora.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to where I might look for the problem? Feel free to offer thoughts or suspicions -- I should be able to follow them up. Of course, complete directions for a fix will not be refused.

Rumpel

 

Rumpel,
I have had REALLY GOOD service from writing e-mail queries to Eudora's people. They take a serious question seriously, and they dig for answers.

What you're describing is definitely either a badly screwed-up computer (not likely, if you're having no trouble with anything other than Eudora) OR a badly BROKEN Eudora, and I'd seek help from the QualComm people.

My glitches were solved by re-installs and the deletion of a few old files left behind in the updating process.