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All my email folders suddenly show pink, diagonal lines, and no emails. What happened and how to fix? I'm still receiving emails, but they don't display

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Thunderbird has worked fine on my new laptop for several months. Today, I was using it as usual, when all emails w/in folders disappeared. The space is blank with each folder, which are all still displayed like normal, but now diagonal pink lines exist - nothing shows in any columns Subject, Correspondents, Date, etc. (see screenshot). I'm still receiving emails like normal because I see them displaying in the lower right corner of the screen when they arrive, but the do not show up in Inbox folder. Must be a Thunderbird problem (I may have accidentally hit a key to cause this?) because I'm still able to see all emails on my smartphone. Any ideas are appreciated; thanks.

Thunderbird has worked fine on my new laptop for several months. Today, I was using it as usual, when all emails w/in folders disappeared. The space is blank with each folder, which are all still displayed like normal, but now diagonal pink lines exist - nothing shows in any columns Subject, Correspondents, Date, etc. (see screenshot). I'm still receiving emails like normal because I see them displaying in the lower right corner of the screen when they arrive, but the do not show up in Inbox folder. Must be a Thunderbird problem (I may have accidentally hit a key to cause this?) because I'm still able to see all emails on my smartphone. Any ideas are appreciated; thanks.
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Click the buttons on the Quick Filter Bar that have a grey background to disable those filters, the pin icon and the contacts icon (see picture).

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Click the buttons on the Quick Filter Bar that have a grey background to disable those filters, the pin icon and the contacts icon (see picture).

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Awesome, that took care of it; thank you so much!