Hello again.
I am on my off-and-on second day of trying to get a newly installed Thunderbird-78.7.1 to recognize the saved blah.default folder holding all my old locally saved mail from the prior 78.3.1 install. The internet is full of posts like this, with answers along the lines of "Works for me.", "Try this, it might help.", "Maybe if you...", "Sometimes...", as well as apparently equally ineffective recipes from the Thunderbird site talking about C:\ paths.
I have used TB for a decade and once it's actually running and screwed down it seems to be pretty solid. That said, I have never upgraded without a struggle to get it to see my old saved blah.default and display it's contents as usable saved mails. This jump, which included a hop to the latest rust, has been the worst ever and still not solved. I've even dug up an idle disk and did a new spare install of 12.1 hoping to get back to the port state where my machine was when it borked, followed, admittedly, by my borking the backup BE. Mea culpa. (Rightous karma for my mocking those in Windows TB hell.)
I have the latest TB installed and it pulls in my gmail mail (pop, not just headers) perfectly. I could wipe it out and install it again without effort. But how do I get to that decade's worth of saved mail? Everything I'ved tried is ineffectual, even TB's instructions. The host has an NFS-served /home that's working perfectly so my position is that perms are correct if not even a little too open. I'd appreciate knowing any repeatable methodology to force TB to do what TB says it will do, and I promise, I'll never upgrade non-system software again. I'll also certainly listen if you've a different client that can properly display, organize, and print your ex-TB saved mail.
So much thanks,
s-a
I am on my off-and-on second day of trying to get a newly installed Thunderbird-78.7.1 to recognize the saved blah.default folder holding all my old locally saved mail from the prior 78.3.1 install. The internet is full of posts like this, with answers along the lines of "Works for me.", "Try this, it might help.", "Maybe if you...", "Sometimes...", as well as apparently equally ineffective recipes from the Thunderbird site talking about C:\ paths.
I have used TB for a decade and once it's actually running and screwed down it seems to be pretty solid. That said, I have never upgraded without a struggle to get it to see my old saved blah.default and display it's contents as usable saved mails. This jump, which included a hop to the latest rust, has been the worst ever and still not solved. I've even dug up an idle disk and did a new spare install of 12.1 hoping to get back to the port state where my machine was when it borked, followed, admittedly, by my borking the backup BE. Mea culpa. (Rightous karma for my mocking those in Windows TB hell.)
I have the latest TB installed and it pulls in my gmail mail (pop, not just headers) perfectly. I could wipe it out and install it again without effort. But how do I get to that decade's worth of saved mail? Everything I'ved tried is ineffectual, even TB's instructions. The host has an NFS-served /home that's working perfectly so my position is that perms are correct if not even a little too open. I'd appreciate knowing any repeatable methodology to force TB to do what TB says it will do, and I promise, I'll never upgrade non-system software again. I'll also certainly listen if you've a different client that can properly display, organize, and print your ex-TB saved mail.
So much thanks,
s-a
