Re: support-thunderbird Digest, Vol 47, Issue 49

[Dr Anil Paranjape]

Dear Friends,
I've gone and messed up my tbird again!
But let me explain. I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 on a Toshiba Notebook with Intel Core2Duo 1.83GHz and 2 GB RAM. I use the client with my gmail account and download my mail with POP/SMTP.

For some time now I have had repeated issues with downloading my mail whenever I don't download for a few days. I get some fifty odd mails every day and hence if I don't download mail for even a couple of days I have a backlog of more than a hundred mails.  I don't always have a problem but every once in a while I find that T'bird begins downloading only some of the mails - say fifteen or so at a time. If I click "Get Mail" it downloads another fifteen odd and so on till all are downloaded. However over a period of time this number goes on reducing to say ten, then seven and four and finally I find myself downloading one mail at a time.  I have written to this support group with regard to this issue earlier and found (thanks to a member who conducted a better search for the problem) that this was a gmail issue and not one with TBird because other clients also had this problem.
This time I found that finally tbird began telling me there were no new messages on the server whereas when I checked my mail I found there were plenty of mails. I tried to uninstall and then reinstall tbird (this had worked in the past and since I do not delete my profile all my mails and passwords stayed with me). However this time this didn't work and I then decided to experiment and so I removed the account from the tools>account settings menu and then I added the account again. Now I find that my old profile with all my old mails is no longer accessible.
I know from reading this group that the mails are there on my computer but how do I get them to show. Just to complicate issues I have now gone on for some days and hence I have some four hundred mails downloaded and hence would like to have these accessible too.
Thus in a nutshell my requirement is for advice on how I can link up my old profile with my new profile. Further, I wonder if this is purely a gmail problem and definitely does not have anything to do with T'bird.
Thanks in anticipation.
Regards,
Anil

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: permanent Desktop balloon notice (Paul B)
   2. Re: Thunderbird icon keeps disappearing from Windows XP
      Taskbar (Wayne Mery)
   3. "indexing my mail" (sean bean)
   4. high CPU usage & pauses/freezes/hangs with gloda enabled
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      (Wayne Mery)
   7. Re: high CPU usage & pauses/freezes/hangs with gloda enabled
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   8. Re: "indexing my mail" (Andrew Sutherland)
   9. Re: RC1: Message in faceted view but not in result list
      (Andrew Sutherland)
  10. Re: Thunderbird icon keeps disappearing from Windows XP
      Taskbar (Herb)
  11. End of folder name gets replaced by random characters
      (Claude DUVERGIER)
  12. Re: high CPU usage & pauses/freezes/hangs with gloda enabled
      (Myk Melez)
  13. Re: Thunderbird icon keeps disappearing from Windows XP
      Taskbar (Wayne Mery)
  14. Local folder vs Server w/ TB (PWM)
  15. Folder Cannot Be Opened (John)
  16. Reordering Accounts? (John)
  17. Re: Reordering Accounts? (Ron K.)
  18. TB as news reader (Old Gringo)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:10:20 -0500
From: Paul B <pb_p...@R.E.M.O.V.E.T.H.I.Soperamail.com>
To: support-t...@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: permanent Desktop balloon notice
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:57:12 +0530, Nir wrote:

  

On Tuesday 17 November 2009 06:14 PM, Paul B wrote:
    

Hi,

I've had a permanent balloon in the upper left corner of my
desktop, saying something like "Local Folders has 5 new
messages". It seems to take its count from when TB first opens,
and doesn't change for the rest of the session.

The balloon is obscuring Title Bar text in other apps. I turned
off "desktop notifications", yet the balloon persists. Is there
any way to get rid of it?
      

If you start Tb in safe mode, do you still experience same behavior?

"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode"
    

No, it's not there in SM. What's more, a subsequent start in
normal mode and it's still not there, even after pulling a mail
to local folders. Not sure what that means.

Thanks,
p.
  

[Dr Anil Paranjape]

Dear Friends,
I've gone and messed up my tbird again! But let me explain. I use Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 on a Toshiba Notebook Intel Core2Duo 1.83GHz / 2 GB RAM and Vista SP2. I use the client with my gmail account and download my mail with POP/SMTP.

For some time now I have had repeated issues with downloading my mail whenever I don't download for a few days. I get some fifty odd mails every day and hence if I don't download mail for even a couple of days I have a backlog of more than a hundred mails.  I don't always have a problem but every once in a while I find that T'bird begins downloading only some of the mails - say fifteen or so at a time. If I click "Get Mail" it downloads another fifteen odd and so on till all are downloaded. However over a period of time this number goes on reducing to say ten, then seven and four and finally I find myself downloading one mail at a time.  I have written to this support group with regard to this issue earlier and found (thanks to a member who conducted a better search for the problem) that this was a gmail issue and not one with TBird because other clients also had this problem.

This time I found that finally tbird began telling me there were no new messages on the server whereas when I checked my mail I found there were plenty of mails (about four days worth). I tried to uninstall and then reinstall tbird (this had worked in the past and since I do not delete my profile all my mails and passwords stayed with me). However this time this didn't work and I then decided to experiment and so I removed the account from the "tools>account settings menu" and then I added the account again. Tbird began functioning except it asked me for my password and commenced downloading mail. It first downloaded 113 mails then 78 and fnally another 42 which was it! All appeared to be well till I noticed that all my old mails have disappeared. I dont think this is just my profile because I find that all my old email ids are still auto-completing (I mean to say that when I begin typing an id I get suggestions to complete it).

I know from reading this group that the mails are there on my computer but how do I get them to show. And just to compound my problems I have now gone on for some days and hence I have some four hundred mails downloaded and hence would like to have these accessible too.

[Annailís]

Are you sure you started a new profile and didn't just
delete/re-add your Gmail account in the old profile? You can
combine mail from profiles but if you did the latter you may have
inadvertently lost your older e-mail. Did you back up your email
folders or profile before you started tinkering?

Before anyone can assist, they will need a clearer idea of
exactly what you have done. Additionally, you might get more
responses from the more knowledgeable posters (of which I'm not
one) if you post in text format and not html.

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Annail�s

[Dr Anil Paranjape]

[Dan]

on 11/20/09 11:58 PM Dr Anil Paranjape said the following:

Google 'merge thunderbird profiles'

[Annailís]

This link at the Mozillazine knowledgebase would be a start (if
you really are combining info from two profiles)=

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird

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Annail�s