How To: Recover Profile After Crash - Unable to open the folder Inbox because it is in use by some other operation.
I suffered a BSOD on my fully up to date Win10 Pro (v 22H2, build 19045.4474) Upon rebooting, Thunderbird is failing to open. The error message is: Unable to open the … (read more)
I suffered a BSOD on my fully up to date Win10 Pro (v 22H2, build 19045.4474)
Upon rebooting, Thunderbird is failing to open. The error message is:
Unable to open the folder Inbox on xxx@example.com because it is in use by some other operation. Please wait for that operation to finish and then select the folder again.
There is no other process using the Inbox folder. I have rebooted and the error message persists. It looks to me like the more correct message would be that the Inbox or the profile is corrupted.
I see other threads asking how to restore a corrupted profile, but none of the answers are very useful. They all see to be tips on how to restore a backup of the profile at %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles.
If I had a backup of that folder, I wouldn't need to ask how to recover a Profile after a crash.
If it helps at all, when I opened the Error Console in Thunderbird, I see the following messages:
``` Uncaught Error: Component returned failure code: 0x8055000a [nsIMsgFolder.updateFolder]
updateFolderAndNotifyOnLoad resource:///modules/DBViewWrapper.jsm:88 open resource:///modules/DBViewWrapper.jsm:812 _onSelect chrome://messenger/content/about3Pane.js:2578 handleEvent chrome://messenger/content/about3Pane.js:1597 <anonymous> chrome://messenger/content/about3Pane.js:128 read resource:///modules/LineReader.jsm:60 _actionListResponse resource:///modules/Pop3Client.jsm:1033 _onData resource:///modules/Pop3Client.jsm:356
DBViewWrapper.jsm:88
- Component returned failure code: 0x80550005 [nsIMsgFolder.msgDatabase] ext-mail.js:2555
findNewMessages chrome://messenger/content/parent/ext-mail.js:2555 onFolderIntPropertyChanged chrome://messenger/content/parent/ext-mail.js:2522 _actionHandleMessage resource:///modules/Pop3Client.jsm:1245 _actionRetrResponse resource:///modules/Pop3Client.jsm:1405 read resource:///modules/LineReader.jsm:65 _actionRetrResponse resource:///modules/Pop3Client.jsm:1371 _onData resource:///modules/Pop3Client.jsm:356 AsyncFunctionNext self-hosted:852
- Component returned failure code: 0x80550005 [nsIMsgFolder.msgDatabase] 4 ext-mail.js:2555
```
There must be some tool that validates the Profile independently of Thunderbird.