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Thunderbird performed an update to my email and ALL Calendar entries are now gone. Completely Empty. Past appointments, meetings etc present and future. I have been using the Thunderbird calendar for over 18 years. I need my info back if possible. I don't have the bandwidth to "find" and "fix" on my own. HELP - quickly if possible. All was working just fine 6 hours ago.

Angela Willis

I was able to send emails on Oct 9 but haven't been able to since then so I assume there's something wrong with your Oct 10 update. I can receive emails. I selected 'reply', entered a comment. My only options after that were to save as a draft or cancel changes.

Authentication method :OAuth2 My Microsoft outlook account settings is correct, but the Thunderbird keeps prompting me to enter credentials, Could I have this reason and how can I resolve this issue. Thanks.

My Mailstore installation will not connect with Thunderbird, stating that pref.js cannot be found. Linking to Mailstore is required thus: AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\741kq2if.default\prefs.js

By enabling Hidden Files on my Windows 11 pc I can link to 741kq2if.default but not beyond to the pref.js 'file'. Note that my T'bird is fully installed and operational. I would appreciate advice. Ron

Beginning Oct. 13, TB no longer functions properly.

1. It won't download new emails from Gmail, and 2. It stalls endlessly when sending a new message. The little circle keeps going round and round.

I made no adjustments to settings for this to happen. It's just out of the blue.

QUESTION: If I download the program, will it seamlessly and safely overwrite the corrupted version so that I may continue using it without risk of losing local access to existing messages?

Win10 PC.

I have an Outlook account and it's arif_dulger10@hotmail.com and I added this one to Thunderbird without a problem but I also have a Gmail account and it's arif_dulger10@hotmail.com yes this is a Gmail account and I'm having problem while trying to add it to Thunderbird. How do I add this Gmail account to Thunderbird?

After many years of reliable service my Thunderbird 115.15.0 (64-bit) email application stopped replicating on my windows 10 pc since October 8, 2024 for my yahoo and gmail accounts. Any ideas why and how to fix it would be very much appreciated.

I'm using thunderbird 115.10.1 on Ubuntu Linux. I've set up a second calendar and associated it with an email account hosted by Polaris Mail. That email address has worked fine within thunderbird for everything else for a long time, but I only recently associated it with a calendar. When I get a meeting invite, for example from a gmail user, and accept that invite, selecting "send a response now", no message ever arrives at the email of the inviter and no email ends up in any of my folders (drafts or sent). It is like nothing happens. The event *is* accepted and added to the calendar, but no respose is created or sent. I have another email account and calendar and meeting acceptances and responses seem to work fine.

I've looked at all the settings I can find and they seem appropriate and analogous to those with the working email/calendar. The correct email address appears in the calendar properties opened by right-clicking on the Calendar and selecting properties.

Any help? Thanks.

I'm running Thunderbird 115.15.0 on Ubuntu 24.04. I have a recurring event that was initiating by an outside invitation. If I try to delete a single occurrence, by any means, it always reappears after a while. It disappears from the calendar and from the "Events this month" pane, but reappears after a while or immediately after starting thunderbird. "By any means" includes when the event initiator sends a cancellation notice and the cancellation is accepted, using the delete key from the "events" pane, using the delete key when clicking on the item in the calendar, or right clicking on the item in the calendar and finding one's way to "delete only this occurrence". This is making the calendar almost useless. This is a purely local thunderbird; I've never tried Caldav or whatever.

(On a 2nd matter, why do not of the "topics" for asking a question on this forum relate to my question?)

Hi, I messed up my first email account creation with Thunderbird where I can't see any local emails and my server inbox is now empty (had +200 emails in there). I am in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Here is what I did: 1- went into my server mail and moved every folder emails into my inbox

2- created my Thunderbird POP3 using the automatic process

   - said to delete emails after being downloaded

3- once created I wanted to create a personnalized folder this account (I have another email to do the same thing). I was pointing to a specific folder before I created a new one: ~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/b*.default I pointed it to ~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/f*

• • • can't remember if these were called profile location or something else. Please explain the purpose of it and when should we need to change it.

4- I went into my mail window and noticed Thunderebird Inbox being empty. I went back to my server inbox and it was also empty. I did not know why nothing was downloaded. I tried using the Get Mail a few times but nothing was happening. Tried to look for Synch something option but could not find any

5- I checked both folders above and saw the default one had tons of stuff why the second one had almost nothing. So I figured that before I had chosen the 2nd folder location, my inbox must have been downloaded into the default one.

6- tried in the console to copy the whole content of the first folder to the second one. I think I restarted at that point, not sure. But in the email list window there was "history.sqlite" listed instead of inbox and "minidumps" below it.

7- I added an import addon, imported the b*.default folder into a 3 one I created, had chosen Offline and restarted. Now in the email window nothing was showing up. I tried Get Mail but it said I needed to get off the Offline mode. I unchecked Working Offline in the File menu but still nothing.

If I do a Thunderbird restart, it asks me which of the 3 profiles I want to start Thunderbird with. If I chose the default one, it shows the history.sqlite and minidumps folders. If I chose the 2nd one I created, it has the same content. If I chose the 3rd one I created with the import, it brings me up to the step where I can create a Thunderbird email account.

Now I have no idea what to do. I still believe all my 200+ emails are in the b*.default folder but how to I switch back to it?

Please tell me I did not loose all those 200+ emails !!!

When I go to Thunderbird Settings,then Saved Passwords I get a rather large (width) window that must have the passwords behind the right-hand border. I can find no way to scroll, change window size, etc in order to view my passwords. My wife;s computer which has Thunderbird, however, has the small window that mine used to have that can be sized to view all of the data including the passwords.

Please respond asap. Also, please send an email and send to nmesusa@gmail.com.

Thank you!

privacyand Securoiioty then

I have unsuccessfully followed to the best of my ability the instructions located here for migrating the Thunderbird profile folder to a new PC: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer (my new operating system is Windows 11 Pro). The folders appear to be installed on the new PC when I examine them through File Explorer, but they don't load into Thunderbird when I open the app.

I read somewhere in one of the comments to this article that it is critical that the versions of Thunderbird on both the old PC and the new PC must be the same. But am confounded as to how to do that. When I look for updates to the version on the old PC, I am offered version 115.10.1. But when I try to download Thunderbird for installation on the new computer, one is only offered 128.3.1esr. How, may I ask, can one synchronize the versions of Thunderbird on both computers then? Where can I find an older version of Thunderbird to download onto the new PC? Or get the version of Thunderbird on the old PC to update to the latest release?

On MacOS using the OS dark theme selection, and the Mozilla TB neutral (default) System theme, Thunderbird forces all reply message backgrounds to be black. Emails are sent with black text over black background This can only be corrected by turning off the OS theme. (An app theme is supposed to theme the app, not the content.)

So TB is forcing Mac users to use an OS theme not of their choosing or to send unreadable emails.

• MacOS Sonoma 14.1
• Thunderbird 128.2.3esr
• System theme — auto v1.3 (latest)

Text and Background Settings:

• Text: [black]
• Background: [white]

Extensions (all latest versions):

• No Message Pane Sort
• quickFilters
• Restart Button
• uBlock Origin
• Xpunge

I am on a MacPro Apple M1 version 15.0.1 Thunderbird version: 128.3.1 esr (64-bit).

I click on my Inbox and see the following regardless of inbox or other folders I have set up see the attachment.

I also added the activity monitor. So it seems to be indexing a lot. I need help in getting this fix.

Thanks, Phillip

I am a disabled user of Firefox and Thunderbird for many years. My Thunderbird recently stopped working normally. I am unable to receive and send emails like I normally do since your recent update. I need help, please contact me. email: [edited] @optonline.net Landline:[edited phone# from public community support forum]

I have had a few dozen emails that come in from known vendors. When I look at any of the emails, there is no indication of who the email is from but has an attachment that looks to be a PDF from my computer that is about 2 years old. There is no body to the email, just the attachment. I thought it to be very strange. It seems to Have started October 8 at 5:50pm and is no longer doing that. My issue is that: 1) it happened 2) The emails that I was expecting are there (from my vendors) but when opened, they go blank except for attachment and I can not figure out what vendors needed or open their invoices to me.' I will reach out to them on an individual basis but I am curious if this is something that is happening, or common. Thank you for your time. Have a great day!

Mike

As per the subject, if I delete, move or rename a folder in my Icloud account, Thunderbird will promptly Unsubscribe all of the other folders. There are two other threads I found where this has happened, but no one has come up with an answer for this, and the threads have been archived. This seems like a bug to me as it only seems to be happening with Icloud accounts. Should I report it as a bug?