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My God.... What an absolute Mess!!!

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Thunderbird 143.0.1

My TBird updated this morning and everything turned to crap...

I have TBird set to check for emails every 15 minutes on 4 accounts. There are also 3 accounts that I monitor and check manually...

As soon as the 143.0.1 update touched home base TBird went ballistic. Withing in seconds of it checking for mail on the four accounts it then started deleting the accounts. Any mail was down loaded then poof!! No mail and No mail account. I had to crash dive my laptop to to stop it. Spent 3 hours trying to recover the emails and accounts and managed to reclaim 3 accounts out of the 4 but lost all the emails... After all that effort I was totally peeved and decided to uninstall TBird and revert to an older version... The icing on the cake TBird wont unistall because the YES button on the TBird Helper window wont activate...

After more than thirty years of supporting Firefox and Thunderbird... You have really dropped the ball with this one... As far as me getting an email when someone answers the thread... Good Luck...

Thunderbird 143.0.1 My TBird updated this morning and everything turned to crap... I have TBird set to check for emails every 15 minutes on 4 accounts. There are also 3 accounts that I monitor and check manually... As soon as the 143.0.1 update touched home base TBird went ballistic. Withing in seconds of it checking for mail on the four accounts it then started deleting the accounts. Any mail was down loaded then poof!! No mail and No mail account. I had to crash dive my laptop to to stop it. Spent 3 hours trying to recover the emails and accounts and managed to reclaim 3 accounts out of the 4 but lost all the emails... After all that effort I was totally peeved and decided to uninstall TBird and revert to an older version... The icing on the cake TBird wont unistall because the YES button on the TBird Helper window wont activate... After more than thirty years of supporting Firefox and Thunderbird... You have really dropped the ball with this one... As far as me getting an email when someone answers the thread... Good Luck...

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Spent the next 4 hours sorting out the mess and rebuilding... Installed 139 beside 143 and then uninstalled... Fortunately it dragged 143 with it and I ended up with no Tbird... Ran every possible disk cleaner and registry cleaner I could find then reinstalled 139...

I got a clean install then proceeded to reclaim and rebuild the profile by copy/pasting from the old email accounts to the new ones then content comparing both side by side before deleting the old profile. By doing this I was able to recover the email account that 143 ate.

So far its been stable for over an hour and executed the timed mail checks after Tbird was completely reconfigured to its previous settings...

7 hours and 42 minutes from start to finish and I'm over it...

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