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Unable to write the emakil to the mailbox - JUST ONE OF MANY ACCOUNTS

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Matt replied 1 hour ago
Chet Dude
Chet Dude

The email from ALL of my other active accounts (7 or 8 of them) all download fine.

Only ONE account throws off the Unable to Write Email to the Mailbox!

I have rebooted, I have compacted folders, I have repaired the folder - same result. Only ONE of my numerous emails fails to download messages.

ALL of the email databases are in the same subdirectory that Thunderbird (obviously) has complete read/write access to.

What now???

The email from ALL of my other active accounts (7 or 8 of them) all download fine. Only ONE account throws off the Unable to Write Email to the Mailbox! I have rebooted, I have compacted folders, I have repaired the folder - same result. Only ONE of my numerous emails fails to download messages. ALL of the email databases are in the same subdirectory that Thunderbird (obviously) has complete read/write access to. What now???

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Chet Dude
Chet Dude Question owner

PS: I have years of emails accumulated in a dozen accounts. Trying to move or delete those messages takes forever. It would sure be nice to have a stand alone tool from Mozilla to enable us to perform backup/delete on individual and/or group of email folders.

Matt
Matt
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Do you have an antivirus that might be locking the storage file? Scanning on each change can see conflicts on accounts that get many email (each can see the file opens and closed again so if the two things happen frequently enough they may conflict. Interactions with cloud backups, antivirus and anything that reads the folder on update is really a possible causal issue.

Chet Dude said
P It would sure be nice to have a stand alone tool from Mozilla to enable us to perform backup/delete on individual and/or group of email folders.

See this add-on. It has been my go to for decades for export. For full backup I tend to just copy the profile folder, it is much faster. https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=ss

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