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Aloha, I have been using Thunderbird since decades. Since a few weeks (or even months) by now, it is hanging all the time. Meanwhile it is totally impossible to use it properly. Whenever I klick on something it hangs itself up and I have to wait at least a minute until I can click something else and then it hangs again.

I already tried reinstalling, but that didnt change anything. Of course I also rebooted the computer.

Why is that so and what can be done?

Mahalo, Stefanie

After I reinstalled Windows and reinstalled Thunderbird, task reminders no longer work. I create tasks using the New Task button on the Tasks tab with a due date and time in the New Tasks dialog. This used to result in a Reminders window popping up at the scheduled date and time. Now, however, nothing happens. As far as I can tell, all the settings on the new install of Thunderbird are the same as I had before. The screenshot shows what I used to get, and what I would like to get again.

Is some setting required to get a Reminders window?

I exported my profile to an external drive, then reset my Windows 11 PC. The resulting file is a zip file. When I import, the import starts, then stalls and gives an error. The error log is incomprehensible to me. How can I not lose my local folders and messages? I tried unzipping and importing that folder, but another error. I need help! Ideas? Thanks.

Image of the error attached.

Thunderbird hangs immediately as soon as I click the Junk folder. Another issue that may be related to this. I posted a question about Thunderbird hanging in a few minutes after starting. It hung this morning when I was downloading the message. The inbox, which had hundreds of messages, became empty. After I downloaded messages again, it had over 6000 messages, most of which were junk. It seems the junk filter is not working now. Could anyone offer a tip on the remedy for this?

I do not understand why in the left hand side bar window I have listed both "Local Folders" and "Local Folders2". The problem is that when I go to look up something I thought I had archived I find it is not there. I thought the folder would contain it. However it got put in the folder either called "Local Folders" or "Local Folders2". I would rather there not be two "Local Folders". As it is now if I archive something and go to look for it, I won't know which place I archived it because both of those folders have the same listing. It is really confusing to me. What can I do so that I will only have one "Local Folders" listing.

Thunderbird performs a compaction. When it is finished the blue progress line is still showing on the bottom right hand side of the window.

You can select any folder and any view condition (read, all, tags etc) and no emails are shown anywhere.

• Restarting Thunderbird fixes the problem with no errors.
• This has happened a lot of times now and is consistent.
• If you force a compaction the problem does not occur.

Update: Usually, in frustration, I restart Thunderbird to fix the problem. This time, whilst typing this forum question, the problem resolved itself. I guess about ten minutes elapsed before the application righted itself. I will watch for the next incident and see what other information can be observed.

I have problems with my cannon scanner which Thunderbird originally solved . Now I have the odd problem especially Emailing the attachment which doesnt appear at the other end . Is there a help or support phone number or second best chat line i can get . i am a donator as it was Thunderbird that originally made my canon scanner perform properly . peterbunnett@gmail.com

I used Edge as my default browser. No issues. Then, Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom started asking for verification everytime I logged into a site. So, I deleted it and changed to Chrome. I set Chrome as my default browser.

But T'Bird still wants to open links to Edge, aka Microsoaft, even though I have completely wiped Edge off of my PC.

According to help, T'bird should recognize my default browser and use that. It isn't. I went into General, but there is NO section labeled 'Default Browser' . A search on 'Default Browser' yields zero results.

I am at a loss.

Thx