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I am running Thunderbird 141 on Windows 11. When I open the task tab, it says: "Please select a calendar that supports tasks". I have tasks on two gmail accounts. But it wont let me select either of them (or my other account).

How can I set the calendar to completely show on the screen - currently in Full Screen mode half of Sunday is off the screen, including the settings icon next to Day/Week/Multiweek/Month. My monitor is a 19" diagonal 4:3 - not a widescreen 16:9. For what it's worth the mail screen displays fine

Thanks, Marc

That’s not a new bug for me, I’ve been dealing with this one for a few years new, across multiple PCs and Thunderbird installations: from time to time, some of my appointments disappear from Thunderbird calendar. Forcing a synchronization achieves nothing: the appointments are correctly available on google calendar and are missing from Thunderbird.

From time to time I need to unsubscribe from the google calendar, re-subscribe and for a few days everything is fine. Then appointments start to disappear again… rinse and repeat.

Now, I understand it’s impossible to point out what’s going with so little details, and in fact my question really is: what can I do on my side to identify the root cause of this? Are there error logs I can check or other clues that can help with that?

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I have calendars and tasks enabled in Roundcube on an account on a cPanel VPS, and I can create a calendar synced to the CalDAV calendar there, but I can’t sync tasks. When I select the calendar on the Calendar tab in TB, at the bottom of the task pane it says “Please select a calendar that supports tasks. I can create both events and tasks in Roundcube. When I create a calendar in TB there is no point at which I can chose whether to sync events or tasks or both. I’m running 143 on Win11. Please help.

I REALLY LIKE THE THUNDERBIRD EMAIL AND CALENDAR. i HAVE GOOGLE AND GEMINI ON MY CELL PHONE AND REALLY HATE AND IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY DAY OR SO THEY ARE ADDING SOME OTHER "ROAD BLOCK" NOT GOOD FOR A 79 OLD LADY TO HAVE THIS KIND OF STRESS "AS WE SAY "JUST KEEP IT SIMPLE "!! DO I NEED SOME ATTACHMENT TO BLOCK GOOGLE AND GEMINI AND JUST STAY WITH MOZILLA - THUNDERBIRD AND ALL THE PROGRAMS THAT I LOVE BECAUSE THEY JUST WORK AND NOT STRESS ME OUT!! THANKS FOR ANY CLUES OR ASSISTANCE YOU CAN GIVE ME. LINDA

An old forum describes how to sync calendars in Thunderbird. Here is an easy solution - In the left-hand pane of your calendar page, right-click your calendar name/ export calendar - into a removable device. In your other computer - Tools/import/ import from a file/ choose to import calendar - easy!

Hi, I really need Calendar function as part of my email client, I have loved Lightning and it has worked well for meeting requests, I used it for confirmation of photographic shoots. Getting the confirmation meat the the client had the same information as the appointment in my Calendar. Lightning is so important that I believe it should be the default calendar for TB and be built into every update. How long before I can use it again, please?

Hi I am using thunderbird with the integrated events connected to various google domains. My calendar looks synchronized and notifications show up. I am on popos on a laptop. The thing is that a lot of time the notifications show up late; like not hours late, but let's say 5 minutes late and sometimes they don't re-appear after the initial reminder. So it's not 100% sure that you will get reminded or pinged at the right time. I have not figured out any specific rule when it works and when it won't. Curious if anyone else is running into such problems. Thanks Andreas

When moving a task from "meine Aufgaben" (my tasks) to another Gmail calendar tasklist ("AI"), a ghost entry, which cannot be completed or deleted, remains in the old Thunderbird tasklist "meine Aufgaben". Thus I have many tasks twice in different Thunderbird-calendars, but only once in Gmail.

Recently, A new hard drive was installed in my computer. I neglected to plan for that by exporting my address book and calendar. I have installed Thunderbird again and the address book. But I cannot get the calendar data to go into Thunderbird. Even a computer guy who extracted the address book and calendar from the old hard drive can't get the calendar file (local.sqlite) to read. How can I get the file to read into the blank calendar? OR will I have to begin filling in a new calendar?

I am using Thunderbird version 128.14.0esr (64-bit) on a Linux system to access email via IMAP/SMTP and it works just fine. Since Thunderbird doesn't seem to support Exchange calendars (as also per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentication-and-thunderbird-202) I would like to integrate Nextcloud calendars. I have followed the official Nextcloud guide for Thunderbird calendar integration, but it is not working. I suspect it is due to the federation, since Thunderbird "Add a calendar" return me a "You credentials have not been accepted". My question is: does Thunderbird’s "Add a calendar" feature support in some way calendar access with OpenID Connect or OAuth2 federation authentication methods? (or there is a way to configure Thunderbird to do so with calendars?)

Hey all,

For about half of the notifications I get from my google calendar, I get a dialogue warning me that the item has changed on the server and I can submit my changes anyway or discard and reload. It doesn't matter what I choose - the pop up goes away and reappears at the next notification.

I have searched for other reports of this issue and seen it reported many times in the last few years. I have tried all of the known solutions but none of them seem to fix the issue for me.

Here's what I've tried:

- Unsubscribed and resubscribed to the google calendar - Unsubscribed, shut down Thunderbird, deleted the calendar-data folder from my profile, opened Thunderbird, and resubscribed to the google calendar - Toggled "Read Only" every which way - Toggled "Offline Support" every which way - Turned off show reminders (which fixes it of course but I want reminders, that's the problem) - Deleted the offending events in my google calendar and recreated them from scratch - which has returned the same "item changed on server" warning.

I don't know what else to do at this point. I don't see any new reports of this issue so am I just missing something fundamental here? Do people not use google calendar in Thunderbird? Is it known to not work if you have an iPhone that also shows calendar notifications or something?

My desktop specs are Windows 11, everything at latest, no additional calendars other than "Holidays in the United States" (which I think comes with Thunderbird), and the BorderColors D extension to change colors of my email border depending on which address I'm sending from.

I have TB 140.3. I;m trying to use the task function. At the bottom of the task column it says "select a writable calendar". Clicking it doesn't do anything. It won't let me set up a task. What do I do? Surprisingly there's no mention of tasks that I can find anywhere in any settings page.

JC

I inadvertently close the Today Pane (side bar on right). Now I can't find a way to reopen it. Also, when it was open there is no value in the 'Due' column, only the task.

Any ideas James

I recently installed Thunderbird again after several years away from it. I do not not why I ever stopped using it but no matter I am back to it now.

However, upon setting it up, I noticed that the tasks have not been added from ANY of my accounts. When I go to the calendar list on the task view, no calendars are showing either.

How do I get Thunderbird to show my tasks in the various accounts?