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Pop mail account cannot store drafts

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I am a longtime Thunderbird user. I have an installation with multiple email accounts in it that was migrated from an old computer some time ago. I used the method someone posted here. Find the profile folder, then go up three levels, copy the folders to the new installation. It worked fine.

It all works, but some of my accounts, I will be writing an email and I get a message that it could not save the draft, because of file access issues.

I suspect directory permissions from migrating this installation. Is there a way to troubleshoot this? Some accounts never have this problem, some have it more often, or always. If I write and send it before the automatic save draft times out it works fine. The mail is saved in the sent mail folder for that account.

These are mostly POP accounts, but some I have migrated to IMAP to solve a problem. I think this happens in some instances on both types.

I am a longtime Thunderbird user. I have an installation with multiple email accounts in it that was migrated from an old computer some time ago. I used the method someone posted here. Find the profile folder, then go up three levels, copy the folders to the new installation. It worked fine. It all works, but some of my accounts, I will be writing an email and I get a message that it could not save the draft, because of file access issues. I suspect directory permissions from migrating this installation. Is there a way to troubleshoot this? Some accounts never have this problem, some have it more often, or always. If I write and send it before the automatic save draft times out it works fine. The mail is saved in the sent mail folder for that account. These are mostly POP accounts, but some I have migrated to IMAP to solve a problem. I think this happens in some instances on both types.

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Matt
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Try creating an exclusion on any third party malware/Antivirus product for the Thunderbird profile folder. Many access issues are caused by on access scanning. Especially if you do not compact your folders regularly to reduce their size. Scanning takes around 10 minutes per GB or it used to.

Another popular cause of issues like access is having streaming backups of the profile, synchronization with the cloud or a NAS for instance. Anything what reads the file system as you use it is suspect. On my old system I disabled windows search in the profile and suddenly the jerkiness of Thunderbird was reduced significantly. Now on an SSD drive I don't need that because file access is so much faster that the old slow Seagate platter drive Dell put in to meet a price point, not a performance one.

You can right click one of the profiles parent folders in windows file explorer and select properties to specify that the files are to be write not read only. This used to be an issue when folk used read only media like DVD's to transfer data.,