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Dirk Reiners

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Apr 12, 2011, 6:39:15 PM4/12/11
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Hi All,

like many of you I have accumulated a good chunk of email over the years. Enough
to not really wanting to keep it on the server, so I have most of it local. So
to work on different machines (home + office) I use unison to synchronize the
.thunderbird folders between machines.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work very well. At this point I have a number of
folders that I cannot open any more. Clicking on them I stay on the screen that
says 'Accounts' and 'Advanced Features' and I get an error on the console that says

EXCEPTION DURING NOTIFY: undefined:523: [Exception... "Component returned
failure code: 0x80550006 [nsIMsgFolder.msgDatabase]" nsresult: "0x80550006
(<unknown>)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/folderDisplay.js
:: FolderDisplayWidget__getDefaultColumnsForCurrentFolder :: line 523" data: no]

The number of unread messages in the folder updates fine, but I cannot see any
of the messages. Sometimes I can get into the folder once, but not any more
afterwards. I tried removing XUL.mfasl, panacea.dat, global-messages-db.sqlite
and all .msf files, but to no avail.

Does anybody have an idea what's wrong, and what I can do about it? Is there a
clean way to synchronize thunderbird folders between machines?

This is all using Thunderbird 3.1.9 on FC14.

Any hints welcome

Dirk

Herb

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Apr 12, 2011, 10:08:16 PM4/12/11
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FWIW, I have been using SyncBack (more recently the Pro version) for
years to synchronise (or rather back up, followed by restore) all my
user data and never had a problem - see
<http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/>

Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk

Maurice Batey

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Apr 13, 2011, 11:26:39 AM4/13/11
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:39:15 -0500, Dirk Reiners wrote:

> Is there a
> clean way to synchronize thunderbird folders between machines?

If you mean cloning one Thunderbird installation onto another (rather
than dynamic synchronism), if you are using Windows there is a free
program called Mozbak, which will Backup/Restore Thunderbird (and
Firefox).
I've used it to port one TBird on WinXP to another on W7. Quite neat.

In a different sphere (email), I'm using Evolution's built-in
Backup/Restore to clone my desktop Evo onto another in my laptop, for
use whilst away from base.

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/\/\aurice
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