Hello, Thunderbird users.
Thank you, Rod, for the information on the "Repair" button for each
Thunderbird folder. This was the second thing I tried after a system
restore. Unfortunately, in my case, the Inbox repair resulted in the
loss of several messages and some messages listed out of date sequence.
No amount of sorting could bring them back to their date/descending
order. Fortunately, I had backed up my Inbox folder before attempting
this move.
Rod, thank you very much for your continuing diligence.
Craig
On 5/29/2014 9:57 PM, Rod Hutton wrote:
Hi Craig, and others having trouble with deleted messages reappearing
or blank messages in your inbox,
I have found a Repair button in the Properties dialog of every folder
in the Thunderbird treeview. So, you highlight your inbox, press the
Application key or Shift-F10, press up arrow in order to get to the
last option in the pull-down, and press Enter. Tab repeatedly until
you get to the Repair button, and this is what you press. If you use
Control-Shif-W to read the dialog, you'll hear what the Repair button
does; you have to wait a while since the info pertaining to it is,
like the Repair button itself, at the bottom of the dialog; you could
use the mouse to review the info also. Additionally, just to be clear,
should you be using the Unified folder view, you must expand the inbox
folder, and highlight the specific account inbox you wish to repair,
and only then do you press the Application key, arrow up to
Properties, press Enter, and then you'll find the Repair button. I
emphasize this point just in case you view the properties of a folder
and wonder why you can't find the
repair button. At any rate, I have used this method to repair the
inboxes I was having trouble with, and aalso the folder to which I was
routing incoming messages using message filters; let's hope it does
the trick.
All the best,
Rod
On 5/28/14 7:21 PM, Craig Werner wrote:
Hello, Rod.
I did indeed try a system restore before posting my message. No
joy. Doing so was a very sensible suggestion on your part.
For testing purposes, I'm thinking of installing a clean copy of
Thunderbird on a flash drive and placing my profile on it to see if
the messages with blank bodies miraculously come back. My copy of
Thunderbird has been on my computer for along time and has gone
through countless upgrades, and it may be that somewhere, some
instability has been introduced. At any rate, as I said before, I
can restore Thunderbird from a backup copy when I get home, so
messages currently unavailable will be restored except for those
received over the last four days of travel.
Thank you so much for your concern.
Best,
Craig
On 5/28/2014 8:37 PM, Rod Hutton wrote:
Hi Craig,
It occurs to me that a system restore might put things back in
order, since I'm not experiencing what you are. It sounds more like
a fault in one of your files than a problem with Thunderbird. Of
course, as always, this is a guess. smile
Take care,
Rod
On 5/28/14 4:56 PM, Craig Werner wrote:
Hello, Rod.
Please hold onto that installer for a while. <smile> I have been
reading Mozillazine articles on Inbox folder repair, and I
attempted such a remedy; but I ended up worse than before with
messages entirely deleted and the date order of the messages in the
Inbox scrambled in a way that resembled no known sort order.
Fortunately, I had backed up my Profile before attempting the fix,
so now I am back to where I was a couple of hours ago when I first
noticed that messages were showing up in the index but failing to
display. I'll keep on searching and playing, and I'll keep you
posted.
Best,
Craig
On 5/28/2014 6:41 PM, Rod Hutton wrote:
Hi Craig,
Thanks. Also, I have version 24.2 installer, and so we could
revert to it, and if we disabled updates, I think we could just
import our mailboxes and we'd be okay. I have DropBox if you want
the installer. Let's see what we think. smile
Take care,
Rod
On 5/28/14 4:08 PM, Craig Werner wrote:
Hello, Rod.
Thank you so much for replying to me. There could indeed be
something odd going on with Thunderbird's upgrades. Fortunately,
I backed up my profile before I went on the trip on which I am
now engaged, so if things can't be resolved, I can always drop
back to my Inbox as it was about four days ago. If I uncover
something helpful, especially if it's a total remedy, I'll be
sure to let you know.
Best,
Craig
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