Thunderbird reset itself to its original state (profile)
When I launched Thunderbird this morning, it was reset as if it was the original download & install. My account settings were gone and all messages were gone, the application was a clean slate. I did not reset the application & I am the only user of the machine it is installed upon. Is there a way I can recover to the previous state? Thank you.
Application Basics
Name: Thunderbird Version: 60.6.1 Build ID: 20190325011617
Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 OS: Windows_NT 10.0
Multiprocess Windows: 0/0 (Disabled) Web Content Processes: Stylo: content = true (enabled by default), chrome = true (enabled by default) Enterprise Policies: Google Location Service Key: Missing Google SafeBrowsing Key: Missing Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing Safe Mode: false
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Antivirus: Windows Defender Antivirus
Antispyware: Windows Defender Antivirus
Firewall: Windows Firewall
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Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none
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All Replies (4)
Did you have an event prior to that startup, where Thunderbird or Windows crashed or failed to shut down?
Did you find the original profile using the recovery instructions?
Thank you christ1 for posting the link to the KB article, it did solve the problem I was experiencing. I will describe the resolution, as it was subtly different than what was in the article.
Using the criteria described in the Which problem do you have section, I selected the link for corrupt or empty prefs.js. I then selected the link from this section titled Find the profile.
I then followed the instructions for Windows 10. I used the search field to search for %APPDATA%. I then clicked on open file location in the search results window, which took me to C:\Users\User\AppData.
I then needed to drill down a little further into C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\smxboqak.default
In this folder I found a file named invalidprefs.js I renamed the file to prefs.js & my messages and folders were recovered.
My add-ons were not recovered, but I can easily get them back from the store, using the add-ons menu.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473880 similar issue