Forum Thunderbird zajednice

I have been using Thunderbird since its first incarnation. I currently monitor (some for non-profits, some my own) five email accounts in Thunderbird. They are all IMAP accounts. However, my own main account also has an extensive system of local folders that adds up to about 12GB of data, and probably over 100 folders (don't ask; it was necessary until I retired last year, but I need to keep all of those saved emails, as I still access them frequently).

I've searched the forums and have found good information on moving Tbird to a new computer, but that's not what I'm looking for. Chances are what I need is here, and I've missed it, so please forgive if I'm rehashing old questions.

Currently, my Thunderbird profile and folders are stored on my C: drive, as is the default. I have been manually backing them up several times a week (for years) to OneDrive, because I can't afford to lose everything if my laptop decides to bite the dust. Using that method, I've successfully moved the setup to a new computer several times. I'm not sure why simply redirecting the setup to a different location on the same system has been a bugbear for me. ::smile::

It would be much less labor-intensive if I can simply point Thunderbird to the OneDrive files so they are always up-to-date and "there," should I need to make a computer change again.

Note, that I am not looking to access the Tbird installation with multiple computers.

I have tried (and failed) to do this in the past. Either my emails are not there, my address books are missing, or a variety of other issues that indicate an incomplete move.

I'm ready to give it another shot, and I appreciate your time and help.

Since the Sequoia install on my Mac I have had many issues. Most of them involve getting logged in to sites I use frequently. Yesterday and today I was unable to load the most recent firefox update and then the most recent thunderbird update. The wheel keeps spinning but nothing actually happens.

The first problem cropped up immediately: Thunderbird has done a pretty good job for years of recognizing my email preferences for Inbox, Trash and Junk; now it no longer delivers email to my Inbox or Trash at startup. Almost all of my email goes to the Junk folder, including that from whitelisted senders. All of my individual spam filters and my whitelist are set to act when email is received, but I have to run the whitelist manually to get it to work (sometimes more than once). The only way I can get things into the Trash folder is to put them there manually, as TB apparently has forgotten everything it learned about my email preferences. I did take the opportunity to update my Whitelist (though to no avail), so I guess I'm sort of glad that I was goaded into doing so. But it hasn't helped.

As of tonight, I can't write or reply to an email or edit an email draft because TB locks up while it is "Copying messages to Drafts..." I've had to close TB ten or twelve times, and I've not been given the opportunity to make a bug comment during the closing routine.

I have emptied the TB cache in hopes that doing so would clear up these issues. Though that works well in Firefox, it didn't help with these problems.

I also am not too happy about the disappearance of the File Edit ... folder bar and its being replaced with a hamburger drop-down menu at the upper right, but at least it will suffice once I've unlearned almost thirty years of doing things a certain way.

I really don't want to stop using Thunderbird. I like the program, and I'd hate to have wasted the two solid weeks it took to get Yahoo! Mail to acknowledge its existence and let me connect to their service, which I did under duress. Not that I'm a masochist or anything.

Windows 11 Ver. 24H2 (OS Build 26.100.4351) Thunderbird Ver. 139.0.2 (64-bit) HP something-or-other tower computer, vintage 2021

I cannot download thunderbird. I already donated money and the donate screen keeps blocking my install. I CAN NO LONGER RECEIVE EMAIL SO YOU WILL NEED TO TEXT YOUR REPLY TO <redacted>

The TB Solutions only provide information for a tar "bz2" file. I downloaded a "xz" file (thunderbird-140.0.tar.xz), how do I install this?

Thanks for any help or solution.

I wish to update my current version of 128.12.0esr within my Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS OS.

Installation of the latest version during installation proceeds to the Finish option then goes to a Blank Screen with a Done at the bottom. The screen eventually after multiple clicks responds with "Thunderbird isn't responding".

I had been using the client with no problems with multiplr email accounts! Very frustrating after multiple attempts to identify the problem including the Trouble shoter having the same problem. Pease Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Installed latest beta....updating from the prior version Font size in folder list has changed....Font in subject and correspondents remains unaltered

This change was immediate. No input from me. My preferred font sizes remain the same as used for the past several months in the beta

Troubleshooting steps do not 'fix' etc

Reboot and/or exit T'bird and restart shows no change

Last update Log : Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.1:

2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: sUsingService=false 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: sUpdateSilently=false 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: isElevated=false 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: gInvocation=UpdaterInvocation::First 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: Writing status to file: applying 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: Performing a replace request 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: PATCH DIRECTORY /home/brian/thunderbird -beta/updates/0 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: INSTALLATION DIRECTORY /home/brian/thunderbird -beta 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: WORKING DIRECTORY /home/brian/thunderbird -beta/updated 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: Begin moving destDir (/home/brian/thunderbird -beta) to tmpDir (/home/brian/thunderbird -beta.bak) 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: rename_file: proceeding to rename the directory 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: Begin moving newDir (/home/brian/thunderbird -beta.bak/updated) to destDir (/home/brian/thunderbird -beta) 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: rename_file: proceeding to rename the directory 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: Now, remove the tmpDir 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: succeeded 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: Writing status to file: succeeded

2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: calling QuitProgressUI 2025-06-28 10:28:15+1000: Running LaunchCallbackAndPostProcessApps

Brian

I just recently upgraded to the latest Thunderbird version and now the local folders I created that had thousands of old emails that I need for my business are all missing...gone...they folders now show as empty! Gone! When I do a global search the email snippets show up as if they are there, but when I click it on, says folder empty. I am trying to stay calm and not break down, but I need these back and I don't know what to do. Please help me find these and get them back. They were from 2008 to 2018. Thank you. I am on a Windows computer on Windows 11.

Please help me to get my old version back. This new version has among other things a huge long list of I guess emails with no content just numbers n, I want the old version back please this is too confusing and does not work for me. I was asked and said yes by mistake.

Recovery of thunderbird forced change of message structure. Old tried and true layout became irrecoverable. Install phase of new thunderbird is not the time to go dicking around with the existing data structures. (which you yourself decided on ages ago).

How do I roll back the unwanted "upgrade" of thunderbird ?

Thanks,