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Error Creating Account

I installed Thunderbird on a new (used) computer running Windows 11 Pro using the old computer's mail account and password. Thunderbird seemed to connect automatically to… (read more)

I installed Thunderbird on a new (used) computer running Windows 11 Pro using the old computer's mail account and password. Thunderbird seemed to connect automatically to the webmail. However, when I click on the email button the program makes me enter my name and password (already entered). Then when I click on next I get - Error Creating Account. What do I do now? Thanks.

Regards,

Dave [edited from public] @centurytel.net

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Profile import partial success

I have a profile on a disk from a Windows 10 machine that recently died. I have a Windows 11 laptop that I just installed Thunderbird on, and I tried a profile import fro… (read more)

I have a profile on a disk from a Windows 10 machine that recently died. I have a Windows 11 laptop that I just installed Thunderbird on, and I tried a profile import from the tools. It was able to successfully import my address book as well as my local folders, but did not import my calendar events or my sub folders under my inbox. Is there any way for me to get this data imported? Thanks, Gary

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Disappearing calendar in Thunderbird 128esr

I am not sure this is really about Installation and updates, but none of the others seemed to apply. This is the second major issue I have had since upgrading to 128esr.… (read more)

I am not sure this is really about Installation and updates, but none of the others seemed to apply.


This is the second major issue I have had since upgrading to 128esr. I am really inclined to go back to 115.


The only way to get my Calendar to display properly is to leave that tab on top when I quit, so it's on top when I launch Thunderbird. If I don't do that, I cannot get my appointments to display and I get no notifications. The Calendar is blank and stays blank, even though it claims my Home calendar is not hidden. I did try hiding it and unhiding it again, but that didn't help. I do not have any Calendar-related add-ons.


It's severely annoying. It means that if I forget to leave the Calendar on top, I have quit, re-launch, and re-log into all my e-mail accounts (I've got a bunch). Could someone please find a better solution for this?


I am using Thunderbird for Mac on a MacBook Pro, 13 inch, mid 2012 running 10.15.7 (Catalina), which is the best the thing can do. Only tell me to upgrade my hardware if you are offering to pay for it yourself.


Thank you.

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New update removed the quick filters I was used to, and added new ones that are not useful to me. Additionally added a search-history-pop up-window that appear every time I click on the search bar.

New update removed the quick filters I was used to, and added new ones that are not useful to me. Additionally added a search-history-pop up-window that appear every tim… (read more)

New update removed the quick filters I was used to, and added new ones that are not useful to me. Additionally added a search-history-pop up-window that appear every time I click on the quick filters search bar.

How can I get back to the previous filters and how can I stop the search history from appearing every time I click on the quick filter search bar

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Manually move old email and addressbook from unbootable disk to new install

Hi, Updating Ubuntu 24.03 to 23.10 something went wrong and the disk is no longer bootable. All the files appear to be there, but since its not bootable I can't export th… (read more)

Hi, Updating Ubuntu 24.03 to 23.10 something went wrong and the disk is no longer bootable. All the files appear to be there, but since its not bootable I can't export the data in the normal fashion.

I installed Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS on a new disk, and mounted the unbootable disk on /oldDisk. My home directory and everything else appears to be intact.

What do I need to move from /oldDisk to the new install to get my address book and emails back?

until I get this fixed you can email me: <redacted>@evvette.net as my account address won't work... thanx in advance, Steve

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stuck in Thunderbird "restart to upgrade" doom loop and can no longer use it

For the past 3 days, I've been locked out of using Thunderbird email. When I try to open it, I get a "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Th… (read more)

For the past 3 days, I've been locked out of using Thunderbird email. When I try to open it, I get a "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Thunderbird. Do you want to restart now ?" "Yes/No" option pop-up.

This is infuriating. After several hours, I'm still no closer to being able to use Thunderbird again.

If I choose to restart, nothing changes and I just get the doom loop pop-up again.

If I install uninstall (via Windows Control Panel), again I get stuck with the "Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Thunderbird. Do you want to restart now ?" message.

I can find no useful advice in the Thunderbird help and forums. It's recorded as a known issue. But no viable solutions found.

Using Windows 10. Looks like Thunderbird tried to update to 115.16.2 on 28-Oct-24 (not something I requested).

Please let me know how I can fix it.

And do something to fix this bug (which is a shocker).

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thunderbird won't 'see' profiles

I was following instructions for the problem of some task bar icons showing as grey boxes. Still have that problem plus added the problem that thunderbird launches with t… (read more)

I was following instructions for the problem of some task bar icons showing as grey boxes. Still have that problem plus added the problem that thunderbird launches with the setup accounts dialogue page. The 'help>troubleshooting information>profile file location' reveals the correct profiles that have been updated to the hour before I caused the problem. I have saved the '...roaming/thunderbird folder to an external SSD, and made a new new thunderbird installation following the instructions for moving files to a new computer. Problem persists. Thunderbird will not 'see' the profiles therefore I cannot see my emails.

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Thunderbird 128: drag & drop doesn't work in calendar "Mutiweek" and "Month" views

Hi all, as per subject, with Thunderbird 128.3.0esr in Multiweek and Month calendar views I can't move elsewhere an event with drag & drop, while I can do it in Day a… (read more)

Hi all,

as per subject, with Thunderbird 128.3.0esr in Multiweek and Month calendar views I can't move elsewhere an event with drag & drop, while I can do it in Day and Week views: am I missing anything?

Many thanks

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Local Folders seem to be invisible

Hi there. I used the export/import functions to export my Thunderbird profile to a new computer. It was largely successful. Many of my layout and general appearance set… (read more)

Hi there. I used the export/import functions to export my Thunderbird profile to a new computer.

It was largely successful. Many of my layout and general appearance settings were not imported to the new computer, but I just re-set those manually.

My last remaining problem is that it appeared that none of my local folders and messages were exported.

However, when I use file explorer to go to drive C on my new computer,

\Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxxx.default-esr\Mail\Local Folders\Storage.sbd All of the folders, subfolders and messages are right there.

They're just not showing up in the directory tree pane or account pane (sorry, not sure what you really call it) in my main Thunderbird interface. All I see are "Trash" and "Outbox."

Anyone have any ideas as to how I make my local folders and messages re-appear?

Thanks,

Dave

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Thunderbird calendars

I have been using thunderbird for years and have 2 lightning calendars. These are stored locally in home/.thunderbird on Ubuntu - currently 24.01.1LTS, TB version just up… (read more)

I have been using thunderbird for years and have 2 lightning calendars. These are stored locally in home/.thunderbird on Ubuntu - currently 24.01.1LTS, TB version just updated to 128.3.0esr. About a week ago I stopped being able to save calendar events, getting the message

An error occurred when writing to the calendar Home! Please see below for more information. Error code: MODIFICATION_FAILED. Description: Failed to write to calendar file file:///home/alasdair/.thunderbird/Home.ics: Could not create unique file in `/home/alasdair/.thunderbird' (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)

I have uninstalled and reinstalled thunderbird to no effect. As I am the only user of the machine all prcesses run as me, the .thunderbird directory is owned by me and I have all permissions on it, as I have for all files in the directory. I can create and edit files there no problem. I have no idea how to d=fix this.

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multiple ImapMail/imap.gmail*

From an upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 I had a fresh installation of Thunderbird 128.4.4esr with a new profile in a different location. After some attempts at migration I ended… (read more)

From an upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 I had a fresh installation of Thunderbird 128.4.4esr with a new profile in a different location. After some attempts at migration I ended up with

(base) kuiper@nutmeg2:~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/p325bquj.default$ ls -l ImapMail/ total 48 drwxr-xr-x 3 kuiper kuiper 4096 Dec 3 17:22 imap.gmail-1.com drwxr-xr-x 3 kuiper kuiper 4096 Dec 7 10:44 imap.gmail-2.com drwxr-xr-x 3 kuiper kuiper 4096 Dec 7 12:12 imap.gmail.com

This are big directories taking a lot of disk space.

(base) kuiper@nutmeg2:~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/p325bquj.default$ sudo du -hst 1G ImapMail/* 15G ImapMail/imap.gmail-1.com 15G ImapMail/imap.gmail-2.com 17G ImapMail/imap.gmail.com

Can I just delete imap.gmail-1.com and imap.gmail-2.com?

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Thunderbird crashing as soon as it opens - startup @ strlen | nsCharTraits<T>::length

Since updating Thunderbird on Friday, the application crashes right after opening, even in safe mode. This happens repeatedly, after several reboots and restarting applic… (read more)

Since updating Thunderbird on Friday, the application crashes right after opening, even in safe mode. This happens repeatedly, after several reboots and restarting application in normal and safe mode.

OS: Windows 10 App version: latest unknown.

Please assist. Details below.

Report Contents

Crash ID is: bp-9d476fe2-c377-4f9c-9908-b7fa80200924

I just erased all my profile files, trashed the Application that was in my machine and installed a new one from scratch. It worked for a few hours but crashed again. Opening in Safe Mode gives the same result.

AdapterDeviceID: 0x694c AdapterDriverVersion: 31.0.21001.46001 AdapterSubsysID: 20738086 AdapterVendorID: 0x1002 Add-ons: tbsync%40jobisoft.de:4.11,dav4tbsync%40jobisoft.de:4.8,uBlock0%40raymondhill.net:1.49.2,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.3,google%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,amazondotcom%40search.mozilla.org:1.1,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.0,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.0 AvailablePageFile: 41078267904 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 26196316160 AvailableVirtualMemory: 138522462175232 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20240820161839 CPUMicrocodeVersion: 0xb4 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 1 ContentSandboxWin32kState: Win32k Lockdown enabled -- default value is true CrashTime: 1728276727 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true EventLoopNestingLevel: 1 GPUProcessLaunchCount: 1 GPUProcessStatus: Running GpuSandboxLevel: 1 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1728025349 LastStartupWasCrash: 1 LauncherProcessState: 0 ModuleSignatureInfo: {"Microsoft Windows":["usp10.dll","winrnr.dll","pnrpnsp.dll","NapiNSP.dll","Windows.Security.Integrity.dll","TaskFlowDataEngine.dll","explorerframe.dll","ntshrui.dll","dataexchange.dll","twinapi.dll","linkinfo.dll","wsock32.dll","cdp.dll","wscapi.dll","dbgcore.dll","cscapi.dll","ondemandconnroutehelper.dll","OneCoreCommonProxyStub.dll","wininet.dll","directmanipulation.dll","rasadhlp.dll","Windows.Globalization.dll","DWrite.dll","FWPUCLNT.DLL","urlmon.dll","Windows.UI.Immersive.dll","srvcli.dll","iertutil.dll","InputHost.dll","TextInputFramework.dll","npmproxy.dll","BCP47mrm.dll","Windows.UI.dll","Bcp47Langs.dll","winmm.dll","ktmw32.dll","OneCoreUAPCommonProxyStub.dll","ColorAdapterClient.dll","winhttp.dll","mscms.dll","twinapi.appcore.dll","WindowManagementAPI.dll","dbghelp.dll","dhcpcsvc.dll","dhcpcsvc6.DLL","MMDevAPI.dll","AudioSes.dll","CoreUIComponents.dll","d2d1.dll","avrt.dll","wshbth.dll","d3d11.dll","dcomp.dll","WinTypes.dll","winnsi.dll","CoreMessaging.dll","wtsapi32.dll","nlaapi.dll","version.dll","dsreg.dll","policymanager.dll","propsys.dll","netprofm.dll","uxtheme.dll","dwmapi.dll","kernel.appcore.dll","windows.storage.dll","dxgi.dll","winsta.dll","msvcp110_win.dll","ntmarta.dll","umpdc.dll","IPHLPAPI.DLL","netutils.dll","dnsapi.dll","powrprof.dll","mswsock.dll","CRYPTBASE.DLL","wldp.dll","cryptsp.dll","msasn1.dll","devobj.dll","userenv.dll","sspicli.dll","profapi.dll","gdi32full.dll","wintrust.dll","KERNELBASE.dll","ucrtbase.dll","bcrypt.dll","win32u.dll","cfgmgr32.dll","bcryptPrimitives.dll","msvcp_win.dll","crypt32.dll","setupapi.dll","psapi.dll","rpcrt4.dll","oleaut32.dll","shell32.dll","combase.dll","clbcatq.dll","ole32.dll","SHCore.dll","kernel32.dll","nsi.dll","msvcrt.dll","sechost.dll","imm32.dll","user32.dll","msctf.dll","gdi32.dll","ws2_32.dll","shlwapi.dll","advapi32.dll","ntdll.dll"],"Microsoft Windows Software Compatibility Publisher":["msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140_1.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll"],"Mozilla Corporation":["thunderbird.exe","rnp.dll","xul.dll","gkcodecs.dll","freebl3.dll","nss3.dll","nssckbi.dll","mozglue.dll","softokn3.dll","lgpllibs.dll"]} Notes: Has dual GPUs. GPU #2: AdapterVendorID2: 0x8086, AdapterDeviceID2: 0x591b, AdapterSubsysID2: 20738086, AdapterDriverVersion2: 30.0.101.1660FP(D00-L1000-W0000100-T00) DWrite? DWrite+ WR? WR+ ProductID: {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6} ProductName: Thunderbird QuotaManagerStorageIsNetworkResource: 0 ReleaseChannel: esr SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 80 StartupCacheValid: 0 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1728276723 SubmittedFrom: Client SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 23 TelemetryClientId: 883ecf00-ea60-465f-bacd-8ab9061444e8 TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}","applicationName":"Thunderbird","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20240820161839","version":"128.1.1","vendor":null,"displayVersion":"128.1.1esr","platformVersion":"128.1.0","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-msvc","updaterAvailable":true},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":32687,"virtualMaxMB":134217728,"cpu":{"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2","hasAVX","hasAVX2","hasAES"]},"os":{"name":"Windows_NT","version":"10.0","locale":"en-NZ","servicePackMajor":0,"servicePackMinor":0,"windowsBuildNumber":19045,"windowsUBR":4894},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":true,"DWriteEnabled":true,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"EmbeddedInFirefoxReality":false,"TargetFrameRate":60,"adapters":[{"description":"Radeon RX Vega M GH Graphics","vendorID":"0x1002","deviceID":"0x694c","subsysID":"20738086","RAM":4096,"driver":"aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 amdxc64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 amdxc32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a","driverVendor":null,"driverVersion":"31.0.21001.46001","driverDate":"6-28-2023","GPUActive":true},{"description":"Intel(R) HD Graphics 630","vendorID":"0x8086","deviceID":"0x591b","subsysID":"20738086","RAM":0,"driver":"igdumdim64 igd10iumd64 igd10iumd64 igd12umd64 igdumdim32 igd10iumd32 igd10iumd32 igd12umd32","driverVendor":null,"driverVersion":"30.0.101.1660","driverDate":"3-18-2022","GPUActive":false}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":3440,"screenHeight":1440,"refreshRate":60,"pseudoDisplay":false}],"features":{"compositor":"webrender","hwCompositing":{"status":"available"},"gpuProcess":{"status":"available"},"webrender":{"status":"available"},"wrCompositor":{"status":"available"},"openglCompositing":{"status":"unused"},"omtp":{"status":"unused"},"d3d11":{"status":"available","version":45312,"warp":false,"textureSharing":true,"blocklisted":false},"d2d":{"status":"available","version":"1.1"}}},"appleModelId":null,"hasWinPackageId":false,"sec":{"antivirus":["Microsoft Defender Antivirus"],"antispyware":null,"firewall":["Windows Firewall"]}},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"fissionEnabled":true,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","intl":{"requestedLocales":["en-US"],"availableLocales":["en-US"],"appLocales":["en-US"],"systemLocales":["en-NZ","zh-Hant-TW"],"regionalPrefsLocales":["en-NZ"],"acceptLanguages":["en-US","en"]},"update":{"channel":"esr","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true,"background":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.search.region":"NZ","network.trr.strict_native_fallback":false,"widget.content.gtk-high-contrast.enabled":true},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":1,"contentWin32kLockdownState":15},"launcherProcessState":0,"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null},"profile":{"creationDate":19344,"firstUseDate":19344},"addons":{"activeAddons":{"uBlock0@raymondhill.net":{"version":"1.49.2","scope":1,"type":"extension","updateDay":19494,"isSystem":false,"isWebExtension":true,"multiprocessCompatible":true,"blocklisted":false,"description":"Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.","name":"uBlock Origin","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":19494,"signedState":0,"signedTypes":"[]","quarantineIgnoredByApp":false,"quarantineIgnoredByUser":false},"dav4tbsync@jobisoft.de":{"version":"4.8","scope":1,"type":"extension","updateDay":20000,"isSystem":false,"isWebExtension":true,"multiprocessCompatible":true,"blocklisted":false,"description":"This add-on is being discontinued because Thunderbird natively supports this feature.","name":"Provider for CalDAV & CardDAV","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":19448,"signedState":0,"signedTypes":"[]","quarantineIgnoredByApp":false,"quarantineIgnoredByUser":false},"tbsync@jobisoft.de":{"version":"4.11","scope":1,"type":"extension","updateDay":20000,"isSystem":false,"isWebExtension":true,"multiprocessCompatible":true,"blocklisted":false,"description":"TbSync is a central user interface to manage cloud accounts and to synchronize their contact, task a","name":"TbSync","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":19448,"signedState":0,"signedTypes":"[]","quarantineIgnoredByApp":false,"quarantineIgnoredByUser":false}},"theme":{"id":"default-theme@mozilla.org","blocklisted":false,"description":"Follow the operating system setting for buttons, menus, and windows.","name":"System theme — auto","userDisabled":false,"appDisabled":false,"version":"1.3","scope":4,"foreignInstall":false,"hasBinaryComponents":false,"installDay":19344,"updateDay":19344},"activeGMPlugins":{"dummy-gmp":{"version":"0.1","userDisabled":false,"applyBackgroundUpdates":1}}}} TelemetryServerURL: https://incoming-telemetry.thunderbird.net TelemetrySessionId: 10fce786-3002-4eca-be92-9e0033096565 Throttleable: 1 TotalPageFile: 52528123904 TotalPhysicalMemory: 34274512896 TotalVirtualMemory: 140737488224256 UptimeTS: 40.4371 User32BeforeBlocklist: 1 Version: 128.1.1 Winsock_LSP: MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] : 2 : 2 : 1 : 6 : 0x20066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : e70f1aa0-ab8b-11cf-8ca3-00805f48a192

MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] : 2 : 2 : 2 : 17 : 0x20609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : e70f1aa0-ab8b-11cf-8ca3-00805f48a192 
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP] : 2 : 2 : 3 : 0 : 0x20609 : 0xc : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : e70f1aa0-ab8b-11cf-8ca3-00805f48a192 
MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6] : 2 : 23 : 1 : 6 : 0x20066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : f9eab0c0-26d4-11d0-bbbf-00aa006c34e4 
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6] : 2 : 23 : 2 : 17 : 0x20609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : f9eab0c0-26d4-11d0-bbbf-00aa006c34e4 
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IPv6] : 2 : 23 : 3 : 0 : 0x20609 : 0xc : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : f9eab0c0-26d4-11d0-bbbf-00aa006c34e4 
AF_UNIX : 2 : 1 : 1 : 0 : 0x20026 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : a00943d9-9c2e-4633-9b59-0057a3160994 
RSVP TCPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 23 : 1 : 6 : 0x22066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
RSVP TCP Service Provider : 2 : 2 : 1 : 6 : 0x22066 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
RSVP UDPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 23 : 2 : 17 : 0x22609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
RSVP UDP Service Provider : 2 : 2 : 2 : 17 : 0x22609 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9d60a9e0-337a-11d0-bd88-0000c082e69a 
Hyper-V RAW : 2 : 34 : 1 : 1 : 0x20026 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 1234191b-4bf7-4ca7-86e0-dfd7c32b5445 
MSAFD L2CAP [Bluetooth] : 2 : 32 : 1 : 256 : 0x20006 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9fc48064-7298-43e4-b7bd-181f2089792a 
MSAFD RfComm [Bluetooth] : 2 : 32 : 1 : 3 : 0x20026 : 0x8 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll :  : 9fc48064-7298-43e4-b7bd-181f2089792a

useragent_locale: en-US This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

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Access Denied on TB install

Trying to install TB from download. I get the following error message: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://login.xfinity.com/login" on this serv… (read more)

Trying to install TB from download. I get the following error message: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://login.xfinity.com/login" on this server.

But, when I login to xfinity through my browser, I can access the mail just fine. What should I do? Thanks for your help. Jerry

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Update lost most of my data

I just updated Thunderbird and any email earlier than 2/22/25 is gone. My sent items folder is empty and my address book is empty. Any email containing a link. The lin… (read more)

I just updated Thunderbird and any email earlier than 2/22/25 is gone. My sent items folder is empty and my address book is empty. Any email containing a link. The link will not work.

I hope there is a way to recover my missing data.

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Feedback on issues moving Thunderbird to new computer - W10 to W11

Moving Thunderbird from an old laptop (W10) to a new laptop (W11). Doing this for a non-computer-literate friend. Old laptop (bought in 2016) is now running W10 but I ass… (read more)

Moving Thunderbird from an old laptop (W10) to a new laptop (W11). Doing this for a non-computer-literate friend. Old laptop (bought in 2016) is now running W10 but I assume it was originally W7 and upgraded at some point (by me).

I followed Moving Thunderbird data to a new computer which seemed straightforward. However when I copied the Profile across and restarted Thunderbird there was no data to be seen. I tried again just to be sure, including uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird. Still no joy. [There are support threads about this but they seem to be archived so I can't update them.]

Onwards and upwards. I tried the "export to zip file" option. This had a mild warning that if the Profile was more than 3GB it might (!) be better to back up instead. [Noting that I had already tried this and failed - see above.]

It produced the ZIP file eventually, at an impressive 15.8GB. I then tried to restore from it, but the Restore option refused to find it, showing a comment that the file must be not larger than 2GB. I refer the reader back to the note on the Export option.

I then noted that you could Import from another Profile. I had one of those saved from my first attempts to copy Profile -> Profile. So I tried this option and it worked.

I think my issue was that the old version of Thunderbird was 32 bit and the new version was 64 bit. In which case the document linked to above could do with an update to warn about moving from 32 bit to 64 bit and include the method that worked. [Subject to more testing by others to confirm the solution works reliably.]

The Export dialogue could also do with a much more specific warning, to align with the Import dialogue.

This is a brief summary of a very long day because shifting 15.8GB of data around between computers and in and out as well is incredibly tedious! :-( Noting that the ZIP file and the Thunderbird directory tree with the Profile in are both the same size.

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