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Good morning I have updated Thunderbird to the lastest version 115.6.0 (64-bit) on my Mac with Ventura 13.3.1 (22E261) and now I can not see my mailboxes and folders. Have tried everything - nothing works. Rest bookmarks work. Contacts and other functions. I can create and send letters from any of my mailboxes, I can search letters in all mailboxes in search field, but I can not see on the left bookmark nothing - empty list of mailboxes. I have download the program again, reinstalled, changed Thunderbird file in Programms - same thing. Please help.

My open emails from previous Thunderbird sessions have blank tabs and empty message windows. How can I get them visible again? The tabs serve as a sort of To Do List, which is now gone. Please see picture. Thanks.

Ian_

After updating TB from 112 to 115 the display window is after starting mostly blank. The email folder tree is hidden left. When I pull it to standard location, when I click to the message folder to see the emails, they do not appear on the right. I need then to reset the screen setting to get to the standard classic theme. This holds only short time and again I have a blank screen as attached. When I click to File and then on Exit, it takes very long to close the TB. Closing the TB wit the right cross top works immediatelly. In my case I have a big folders (few GB each) and multiple emal accounts. I really have to say, that in speed and friendly usage is the 115 step backwards from 112.

This problem has been reported before, and I've done web searches and searches in this conference, and none of the solutions work.

I'm running 102.15.1 (64-bit) on two Windows 7 systems. On one of them, something has gone wrong. I accidentally clicked on a .themepack file and the theme didn't work correctly afterwards. I eventually got to a point where I could access Personalize and go back to the previous theme. The system appeared to be working after that, but as a precaution I went back to a system restore point from well before this event happened. After that, everything on the system worked correctly EXCEPT Thunderbird. When I start it I don't get any errors, but it's all blank. The menu bar is visible, and the get message line, but the folders panel and the panel where there should be mail messages are completely blank. Pulling down "Tools" and selecting "Settings" does nothing. Oddly, I can access "Account Settings", and they look o.k. I can also pull down "Help" and get the Troubleshooting information, and it pointed to the correct profile. I don't see how changing themes could be the actual cause of the Thunderbird problem, as everything else on the system is working but I mention it because I had to do a shutdown and reboot and let the system force Thunderbird and other programs to stop.

I have tried all of the fixes I could find in other notes, and none of them worked. Changing the name of global-messages-db.sqlite and restarting didn't help. I can start in troubleshooting mode and disable add-ons, but that doesn't help, and I don't have instructions on what to do once I'm in trouble shooting mode. I also tried starting it with -safe-mode, which also didn't help.

So I tried brute force. I de-installed and reinstalled Thunderbird and convinced it to use the old profile, but that doesn't work. I finally de-installed Thunderbird and used RevoUninstall to make sure everything in the directory and all folders and files were removed. I then copied my profile from my other working system (both Local and Roaming), did a clean install of Thunderbird, used the profiles that should be good as they were from a system that is still working, but even that hasn't fixed the problem. (I've copied the profiles between systems before at least twice and got them to work, so I'm reasonably sure I copied them correctly this time).

I can't imagine what else could possibly be keeping Thunderbird from starting correctly. At this point I'll accept any suggestions or even wild guesses as to what I should to do next. I have a lot of my mail stored in folders, and I'd really hate to have to redo everything from scratch, especially as I should be able to copy profiles as I have done before.