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Windows 10 - Thunderbird doesnt always find network drives when saving attachments

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whitehairedgeezer2
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Intermittent fault. This happens especially if I fire up Thunderbird without first looking at a network drive in File Explorer - though not always. If the drives are not shown. it wont even recognise the drives if I enter one physically (say E:\ for my NAS box) or click on a shortcut to the drive and tells me the drive is unavailable and I should check all physical connections. If I drop out of Thunderbird and use File explorer the drrives are all there. Going back into Thunderbird usually finds all the drives so I can save the attachments. Worked fine in W7 so its a Thunderbird/W10 problem.


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Intermittent fault. This happens especially if I fire up Thunderbird without first looking at a network drive in File Explorer - though not always. If the drives are not shown. it wont even recognise the drives if I enter one physically (say E:\ for my NAS box) or click on a shortcut to the drive and tells me the drive is unavailable and I should check all physical connections. If I drop out of Thunderbird and use File explorer the drrives are all there. Going back into Thunderbird usually finds all the drives so I can save the attachments. Worked fine in W7 so its a Thunderbird/W10 problem. ''fixed the leading space producing a horz scrollbar''

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Thunderbird and network drives have a very checkered history. there are still bug open around saving files in network drives.

Having said that I don't think this one sounds like Thunderbird. it sounds like Widows not opening the connections until after they are requested. I would guess that repeated attempts in Thunderbird may also prompt the loading of the network drive.

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Thunderbird and network drives have a very checkered history. there are still bug open around saving files in network drives.

Having said that I don't think this one sounds like Thunderbird. it sounds like Widows not opening the connections until after they are requested. I would guess that repeated attempts in Thunderbird may also prompt the loading of the network drive.