Windows 10 reached EOS (end of support) on October 14, 2025. If you are on Windows 10, see this article.

Avatar for Username

Buscar en Ayuda

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Este tema ha sido archivado. Haz una nueva pregunta si necesitas ayuda.

Deleting global-messages-db.sqlite file not working

  • 4 respuestas
  • 0 tienen este problema
  • 225 visitas
  • Última respuesta de DavidGG
  • Archivado

antaresbda
antaresbda

I want to force Thunderbird to redownload all my emails off of my gmail server (POP mail server). I have read that deleting the file global-messages-db.sqlite from my profile folder, with Thunderbird closed, and then restarting Thunderbird should result in any email on my gmail server being redownloaded. I see the global-messages-db.sqlite file being re-created but Thunderbird does download anything off of the server. My gmail server has about 4,000 email on it all the way back to 2023.

Any thoughts on another way to force them down would be greatly appreciated!

I want to force Thunderbird to redownload all my emails off of my gmail server (POP mail server). I have read that deleting the file global-messages-db.sqlite from my profile folder, with Thunderbird closed, and then restarting Thunderbird should result in any email on my gmail server being redownloaded. I see the global-messages-db.sqlite file being re-created but Thunderbird does download anything off of the server. My gmail server has about 4,000 email on it all the way back to 2023. Any thoughts on another way to force them down would be greatly appreciated!

Todas las respuestas (4)

sfhowes
sfhowes

Deleting or renaming popstate.dat should force a download of all messages.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popstate.dat

Rebuilding the sqlite file only resets the global search database in case search results are incorrect.

antaresbda
antaresbda Autor de la pregunta

Thank you for the quick response. I have given it a try, but it didn't have any effect. I note that the popstate.dat file hasn't been recreated either, at least not yet.

antaresbda
antaresbda Autor de la pregunta

I'm wondering whether I should take backup of the email account, delete the email entirely from the profile, and then re-add it, restoring the backup prior to allowing it to check the server for new messages.

Perhaps that will work.

DavidGG
DavidGG

Gmail doesn't work like a normal POP server would. Messages are marked as already downloaded at the server. If you want already downloaded messages to be downloaded again, you have to use webmail and make that happen in Gmail Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP.