Thunderbird hints&tips thread

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dunno what i did (or a family member did) to thunderbird but i lost all my folders! just spend a few mins trying to work out what the hell has happened. seems all my folders and info where saved in loacal folder buit thunderbird is now running of loacal folder_1 and therefore not reading any of the info/folders etc.

tried deleting loacl folder and renaming local folder-1 back to local folder but thunderbird just created local folder_1 again! :mad: had to just move all my info etc out of the old one into the new one.

no idea why it happened tho. maybe something to do with me creating and configuring new users as part of my course or alice playing on the keyboard.
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Go to account settings and for each account set it to store messages in it's own folder rather then local folders :)
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i only seem to have local folders :eek: i seem to remember changing some of those settings not long ago, ergo it was probably me who fooked up my folders without realising it :roll:
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Tools > Account Settings > (for each mail account) Server Settings > Advanced > Inbox for this server's account
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ta, done that now, how will that help me though?
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well they should become visible when you set them :para:
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nah but that probably because ive moved all the data around manually now :P ive got my guru4u folders back but without all my extra stuff because i must have already manually moved that from the guru4u folder.. ive lost the plot now.. so anyway ive copied all the stuff i moved back earlier back to my new guru4u folder now so i think ive gone insane :) la la la :) time for bed
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now i'm confused :P
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guru wrote:time for bed
The moral of that post! :wink:
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Don't suppose anyone has any ideas how I can stop norton internet security pissing me off by blocking thunderbird & outlook.

It did it once before & I had to uninstall norton then re-load - I can now only get my e-mails by disabling my firewall!!??

Why it randomly decides to block everything I have no idea - wouldn't mind if i'd done sometime to it!!!?? :x
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the best way has to be to uninstall norton and leave it at that :P

sorry mate I make a point of avoiding norton at all cost :para:
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yep after my subscription runs out I'm never going back to norton!!!!
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Hear hear
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F-Secure, that's the way forward :D
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go into your firewall config, find the add programs settings, remove your email if they are there then run and ket it find them again and it will auto config them. and yes norton have really screwed up their product, its shite now.l
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