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Thunderbird poop
Please help.
The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla. I do not know how to do that. Running Latest version of TBird ! on Win XP pro. 5 eMail accounts. some IMAP We share this PC and have only one user name. 1) trying to compact folders. Says folder in use and stops compaction all the other folders. Try again and stops again at a different folder. Poop ! 2) Currently downloading 50,121 email in All Mail Which All Mail ????? It does not say. Really stupid programmers ! I do not want this to happen so how do I kill it ??? How do I get rid of all All Mail. I deleted mail in those folders but it does not delete really. It comes back. Why can't they just not fill All Mail as an option ! Poop ! 3) I now have 35GBytes in the profiles. TBird is so stupid about maintenance and should make it easier to do ! How do I move all of this to a drive with lots of space ??? Poop ! Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! |
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:09:49 -0700, Miller wrote:
Please help. The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla. I do not know how to do that. Running Latest version of TBird ! on Win XP pro. 5 eMail accounts. some IMAP We share this PC and have only one user name. 1) trying to compact folders. Says folder in use and stops compaction all the other folders. Try again and stops again at a different folder. Poop ! 2) Currently downloading 50,121 email in All Mail Which All Mail ????? It does not say. Really stupid programmers ! I do not want this to happen so how do I kill it ??? How do I get rid of all All Mail. I deleted mail in those folders but it does not delete really. It comes back. Why can't they just not fill All Mail as an option ! Poop ! 3) I now have 35GBytes in the profiles. TBird is so stupid about maintenance and should make it easier to do ! How do I move all of this to a drive with lots of space ??? Poop ! Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! Obviously. You didn't mention what version you are using or even which OS. And all the problems you are having can be fixed by going to "Account Settings" and "Options" (or whatever that is in the latest versions) Thunderbird only does what you tell it to do. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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In message , Miller
writes: Please help. The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla. I do not know how to do that. [] Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! You appear to be posting via something called netfront. You must have signed up with that. You need to sign up with the mozilla news server in much the same way - then you will be able to post direct to mozilla.support.thunderbird; that is better than us relaying your questions. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The desire to remain private and/or anonymous used to be a core British value, but in recent times it has been treated with suspicion - an unfortunate by- product of the widespread desire for fame. - Chris Middleton, Computing 6 September 2011 |
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On 04/20/2018 04:57 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Miller writes: Please help. The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla.Â* I do not know how to do that. [] Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! You appear to be posting via something called netfront. You must have signed up with that. You need to sign up with the mozilla news server in much the same way - then you will be able to post direct to mozilla.support.thunderbird; that is better than us relaying your questions. OP: once you signup to the Mozilla server, make sure you refresh the newsgroups. If you're in TB, I think it does it by default, but if I'm wrong, there is a button to do it. Al |
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On 20/04/2018 21:09, Miller wrote:
Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! Correct you are not a computer literate but you are a complete idiot so nobody on Mozilla Newsgroups would like to get involved with you. In future don't ever cross-post to Windows 7 newsgroup as you are not intelligent enough to use that operating system. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Miller wrote:
Please help. The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla. I do not know how to do that. Running Latest version of TBird ! on Win XP pro. 5 eMail accounts. some IMAP We share this PC and have only one user name. 1) trying to compact folders. Says folder in use and stops compaction all the other folders. Try again and stops again at a different folder. Poop ! If you disconnect the network cable on the PC, or turn off the router, Thunderbird cannot engage any servers in it's server list. Once this is done, compaction should be a little easier. If it is doing automatic compaction already (you see the disk light flashing), then the program just might be stupid enough to think its own compaction operation is "making a folder busy". Thunderbird is the "poster boy" for poorly thought out asynchronous behavior. Disconnecting the network cable is all I can think of, to quiet it down. But it's really not a quiet program in my opinion. Always busy busy busy like it was Windows 10 or something. 2) Currently downloading 50,121 email in All Mail Which All Mail ????? It does not say. Really stupid programmers ! I do not want this to happen so how do I kill it ??? How do I get rid of all All Mail. I deleted mail in those folders but it does not delete really. It comes back. Why can't they just not fill All Mail as an option ! Poop ! 3) I now have 35GBytes in the profiles. TBird is so stupid about maintenance and should make it easier to do ! How do I move all of this to a drive with lots of space ??? Look for the file "profiles.ini" just above where the current 35GB profile is located. Profiles.ini is a text file. It has relative and absolute path specification capability. While exited from Thunderbird, you can edit "profiles.ini" and change the path. Copy the profile folder (all 35GB) to your roomy disk drive. Then edit profiles.ini to point to the new location. I move my profile all the time. For example, when the OS I'm using right now was broken a couple days ago, I copied the profile over to my other OS disk, edited "profiles.ini" on it, and Thunderbird picked up where it left off. Sometimes you have to re-enter a password, because that part doesn't always seem to transfer well. Poop ! Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! This page explains "All Mail" a little bit, a "feature" of GMAIL. There is a link in this text, that is supposed to take you to some unsubscribe info. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1045261 "The 'All Mail' folder in gmail is where gmail keeps all of its emails and labels are applied to show emails in various folders including the Inbox. So the 'All Mail' folder is really an archive folder in gmail. If you subscribe to see 'All Mail' folder then it doubles the size of your Profile. If you delete emails from the 'All Mail' folder you are likely to delete them from all folders. You can unsubscribe from showing the 'All Mail' folder. Here is a link to info on doing this. * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Gmail scroll down to the section 'All Mail' " HTH, Paul |
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On 4/20/2018 1:09 PM, Miller scribbled: Please help. The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla. I do not know how to do that. Running Latest version of TBird ! on Win XP pro. 5 eMail accounts. some IMAP We share this PC and have only one user name. 1) trying to compact folders. Says folder in use and stops compaction all the other folders. Try again and stops again at a different folder. Poop ! 2) Currently downloading 50,121 email in All Mail Which All Mail ????? It does not say. Really stupid programmers ! I do not want this to happen so how do I kill it ??? How do I get rid of all All Mail. I deleted mail in those folders but it does not delete really. It comes back. Why can't they just not fill All Mail as an option ! Poop ! 3) I now have 35GBytes in the profiles. TBird is so stupid about maintenance and should make it easier to do ! How do I move all of this to a drive with lots of space ??? Poop ! Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! My advise to you is to use Eudora, dump Thunderbird. and do not try to use them together as they claim you can. Only use Eudora. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE |
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On 4/22/2018 4:21 PM, tesla sTinker wrote:
On 4/20/2018 1:09 PM, Miller scribbled: Please help. The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla. I do not know how to do that. Running Latest version of TBird ! on Win XP pro. 5 eMail accounts. some IMAP We share this PC and have only one user name. 1) trying to compact folders. Says folder in use and stops compaction all the other folders. Try again and stops again at a different folder. Poop ! 2) Currently downloading 50,121 email in All Mail Which All Mail ????? It does not say. Really stupid programmers ! I do not want this to happen so how do I kill it ??? How do I get rid of all All Mail. I deleted mail in those folders but it does not delete really. It comes back. Why can't they just not fill All Mail as an option ! Poop ! 3) I now have 35GBytes in the profiles. TBird is so stupid about maintenance and should make it easier to do ! How do I move all of this to a drive with lots of space ??? Poop ! Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! My advise to you is to use Eudora, dump Thunderbird. and do not try to use them together as they claim you can. Only use Eudora. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE If you go to the above link you will find that Eudora has been abandoned and is no longer being supported. The same link suggests using Thunderbird in place of Eudora... |
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Miller wrote on 21/04/18 06:09:
Please help. The Mozilla group is sleeping. I find experts here, not there ! You have my permission to get this post to the appropriate folks at Mozilla.Â* I do not know how to do that. Running Latest version of TBird ! on Win XP pro. 5 eMail accounts.Â* some IMAP We share this PC and have only one user name. 1) trying to compact folders. Says folder in use and stops compaction all the other folders. Try again and stops again at a different folder. Poop ! 2) Currently downloading 50,121 email in All Mail Which All Mail ????? It does not say.Â*Â* Really stupid programmers ! I do not want this to happen so how do I kill it ??? How do I get rid of all All Mail. I deleted mail in those folders but it does not delete really. It comes back. Why can't they just not fill All Mail as an option ! Poop ! 3) I now have 35GBytes in the profiles. TBird is so stupid about maintenance and should make it easier to do ! How do I move all of this to a drive with lots of space ??? Poop ! Please small steps since I am not computer literate ! Miller, I don't use Thunderbird but *I do use SeaMonkey Suite* (think Firefox plus Thunderbird plus), so the settings may/will be different, but I'll have a go!! Have a look at the drop-down menus across the top of your Thunderbird screen and you should find something like "Tools" or "Options" which allows you to "Switch Profiles". There you should be able to set up a new profile, give it a name and locate it where ever you want (on the second screen, maybe). Then have a look, possibly under the "Edit" drop down (or, again, under "Options"), for "Mail & Newsgroup account settings" and, on your current Profile (probably called "Default"), select "Server Settings" and, at the bottom of that screen, note the "Local directory:" location. Then do similar for your newly created account. Then completely close Thunderbird, including the Windows "Fast Start" ability (down in the bottom left of screen), if you use that. Then, in your Windows File Manager, copy the files from your current Profile to the same level in your New Profile. Then, restart Thunderbird and change into your new Profile using the "Switch Profiles" screen mentioned above. Report back if you need further help. -- Daniel |
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