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Thunderbird is messing up saved directories

  • Cavab yoxdur
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I save old messages into sub directories by year. I find that if I had a single graphic or something as an attachment it nullifies everything in that group showing no mail at all. Further it starts to replicate the file names especially if I change the name of the directory. I enclosed what I mean, its ruining the mail inside, I can't read the file. I really wish this program didn't combine all the messages like it does into one file but instead had the option to keep them all apart.

But right now its broken, I don't know how many versions this goes back and i'm hoping there will be a fix and something to repair the damaged files. And no repairing folder doesn't work. I spent 2 hours trying to get back important information and I couldn't fix the issue. I had to finally get the text chain as a single message sent back to me so I can see everything. But I can't keep doing that.

Can someone look into this? Copilot had lots of ideas but there is clearly a bug in the system.


---Mike Savad

I save old messages into sub directories by year. I find that if I had a single graphic or something as an attachment it nullifies everything in that group showing no mail at all. Further it starts to replicate the file names especially if I change the name of the directory. I enclosed what I mean, its ruining the mail inside, I can't read the file. I really wish this program didn't combine all the messages like it does into one file but instead had the option to keep them all apart. But right now its broken, I don't know how many versions this goes back and i'm hoping there will be a fix and something to repair the damaged files. And no repairing folder doesn't work. I spent 2 hours trying to get back important information and I couldn't fix the issue. I had to finally get the text chain as a single message sent back to me so I can see everything. But I can't keep doing that. Can someone look into this? Copilot had lots of ideas but there is clearly a bug in the system. ---Mike Savad
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