On 28/01/12 01:16, Anton Aylward wrote:
I had a power-out crash (don't ask) and when the machine came back up after plugging the power cord in again and locking the cat out I find Thunderbird misbehaving.
It is as if its lost a lot of context.
Oh, all the account settings were there but all 'history' had been lost, the counts on the folders, and the "moveto -> recent" history.
What's weird and what I can't seem to refine a google query to find is this:
1. Every message in every folder is now a 'draft" as in it says "This is a draft message" and shows an edit button. EVERY message in EVERY folder, not just the ones in the draft folder. Its as if every folder has been marked 'draft'
2. When I do move stuff from inbox to another folder (or 'possible junk' to false-positive or false-negative) the destination folder should be added to the 'recent' history. It isn't, that remains empty.
I've not met this problem before and it hasn't happened before this morning's cat-and-the-cable incident.
If anyone has any ideas about this I'd be grateful.
What is isn't
- corrupt file system - access permissions under ~/.thunderbird
To start off with, I suggest that you do 'e2fsck' on the partition where your linux system is installed. Even though on boot this check is done automatically to recover corrupted indexes etc in the file system this does not always cure all the problems and so doing 'e2fsck' manually is suggested. My wife's computer suffered from this a couple of weeks ago so I speak from "being there, done that". The other thing, Thunderbird has the option to rebuild the folders' indexes - right-click on a folder, select Properties then Repair Folder. Have you done this repair job? (And do you make a weekly backup of your /.mozilla and /.thunderbird sub-directory, hmmmm? :-) . BC -- But when you take arms from people, then you start to upset them, you show you do not trust them because you are frightened or cagey. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org