Problem with subscribing to the News Groups

[Don Nickell]

Whenever I close (minimize ?) *news.mozilla.org* and
reopen later the selection of the groups is gone and I
have to subscribe again and go through all the cleanup
of 50 year (sic) old messages anew. How do I prevent
that...or why is it happening?
Thanks,
Don

[Martin Feitag]

Don Nickell schrieb:

What do you mean by closing the newsserver? (collapsing it in
Thunderbird with the - sign which then becomes a + sign?)
This wouldn't be normal after all, have you tried that with a new
profile in Thunderbird or a parallel Seamonkey-installation too?
regards

Martin

[Don Nickell]

Hi Martin,
Yes, but there must be some misunderstanding here.
I've learned in the past to "close" so that when I
"open" (expand) next time the threads are
automatically refreshed; I know I can simply click on
the desired group to refresh but I would druther not.

History: I recently install the TB Tabs extension
which caused my version (V2.0.0.21) of TB to bop back
to V 2.0.0.6 that it was designed for. I had
re-install because the extension caused most of my
favorite extensions to fail...not compatible with that
old a version.

I hope that explains it better.
Don

[Don Nickell]

Hello Martin,
I just thought of another reason for closing: I also
have as NGs: alt.Porsche/Electonics,
cnews.corel.org & msnews.microsoft.com. If I had the
all open the "All Folders" column would overflow the
screen and I'd have to close some simply to see the
ones I want at the moment.
Don

[Martin Feitag]

Don Nickell schrieb:

Well yes, collapsing and expanding is okay of course ;-)
My Seamonkey behaves exactly as you described your TB behaved in the
past, it updates the numbers of only the unread messages of all groups
of a news-server since the last visit when expanding it.
It seems like your TB is broken somehow. I would still suggest you
create a second profile with the profile manager and add your
news-servers to it. If this works fine, your profile is damaged. If this
new profile behaves the same, your TB-installation seems to be damaged.
(in this case uninstall TB, delete the program directory and reinstall
it, after that you can use your profile, it won't be deleted by the
uninstall process)

> I just thought of another reason for closing: I also have as NGs:
> alt.Porsche/Electonics,
> cnews.corel.org & msnews.microsoft.com. If I had the all open the "All
> Folders" column would overflow the screen and I'd have to close some
> simply to see the ones I want at the moment.
> Don

Yes that seems reasonable. :-)

regards

Martin