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Thunderbird is keep asking to grant access to my google account. Help

Csaba Szalontai
Csaba Szalontai

I imported my whole folder from AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles by copying the profile into my work computer and completely forgot I wouldn't need my gmail acount on this pc so I removed the account from the left side keeping my business account. Now thunderbird has a window pop up every time I open it where it says mozilla thunderbird email wants access to your google account. It doesn't matter what I select it will still back up next time. I clicked on the profiles. The gmail one is gone completely. Calendar was still showing my google calendar but I unbubscribed from them. Still have the issue. Kinda drives me nuts. Any help would be appreciated. I tried to follow some info i found from 2 years ago but didnt help

I imported my whole folder from AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles by copying the profile into my work computer and completely forgot I wouldn't need my gmail acount on this pc so I removed the account from the left side keeping my business account. Now thunderbird has a window pop up every time I open it where it says mozilla thunderbird email wants access to your google account. It doesn't matter what I select it will still back up next time. I clicked on the profiles. The gmail one is gone completely. Calendar was still showing my google calendar but I unbubscribed from them. Still have the issue. Kinda drives me nuts. Any help would be appreciated. I tried to follow some info i found from 2 years ago but didnt help
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ThePillenwerfer
ThePillenwerfer

Try going to Settings then Privacy & Security. In the Web Content box is a Show Cookies button. Click that, find the Google one and delete it.

Csaba Szalontai
Csaba Szalontai Question owner

Did not help. I deleted the cookies. Restarted thunderbird it asks me to sign in into google. After I do it asks for the same access. Whatever I do it will just keep asking me for this. I dont have a google account in the thunderbird... i dont get it. I never had this issue for the past 6 years.I just reinstalled my windows and now it's giving me this issue. I did have a gmail account but i have removed it from thunderbird

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Csaba Szalontai
Csaba Szalontai Question owner

Well.... no need to solve it. Uninstalled thunderbird, manually deleted the thunderbird folder from appdata/roaming and manually added the email account instead of using the profile folder from my home computer and no more issue.

I also found gmail being an smtp outgoing default server under my work email which is not a gmail account but even making the correcr server default and deleting the gmail one still did not fix the issue. That was the point when i decided to delete the whole thing. Something does look very off in the columns area... cant put my finger on it. It just looks weird. Looks too busy with name and email address from other people next to each other.

ThePillenwerfer
ThePillenwerfer

I agree that recent versions of Thunderbird look vile out-of-the-box but they can be tweaked to look nice. Not everybody has the time or confidence to mess about with it though and just want to use it.