My Thunderbird folders all show, but suddenly the emails stored in them don't display.
Hi. I've been using Thunderbird for a year without any problems. I have it installed on my both my desktop and laptop PCs. Thunderbird is working normally on my laptop. But suddenly Thunderbird is not working properly on my desktop PC: I can see all of my Thunderbird folders, but none of the emails stored in those folders are displaying. (Those non-displaying emails continue to show in Thunderbird on my laptop PC and also when I go to my Gmail account through a browser. So the problem is specific to Thunderbird on my desktop PC).
When I try closing and re-opening Thunderbird on my desktop PC, a "Welcome to Thunderbird/Donate to Thunderbird" message appears in the email display window. But when I click on any of my email folders, no emails are displaying.
Background information that may or may not be pertinent: Last night Windows did an automatic software update on my desktop computer. I don't know if that update might somehow have corrupted Thunderbird on my desktop PC.
Thanks for any help or advice!
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at the top of the mail list is a row on headings, on the right of that list is a small square icon.
Click it and use the menu to "reset columns to default"
Thanks, Matt. Unfortunately when I "reset columns to default" that doesn't solve my problem. I still see all my folders, but I can't see any of the emails in those folders.
Do you have another solution to suggest?
Ilungisiwe
do you have the the quick filter bar open and have clicked to only show unread messages perhaps?
Do you see any error messages when you press Shift + F5
Thank again, Matt. Unfortunately your new suggestions haven't solved my problem: Quick Filter is NOT set to show only unread messages. Likewise, when I go over to the top far right of the screen where there are three horizontal lines and click down to View and then Messages, it is set to show All messages.
Nothing at all happens when I press Shift + F5.
Do you have any other ideas? Thank you!
Ilungisiwe
In order for us to better investigate this issue, we'll need some more information.
Could you please do the following:
- Open the menu > Help > Troubleshooting Information, then click Copy text to Clipboard.
- Open a reply to this post, and paste the information to your reply.
If the system complains about the length of the post, trim the information to only that before the Graphics heading.
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Name: Thunderbird Version: 60.7.0 Build ID: 20190517095026
Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 OS: Windows_NT 6.1
Multiprocess Windows: 0/0 (Disabled) Web Content Processes: Stylo: content = true (enabled by default), chrome = true (enabled by default) Enterprise Policies: Google Location Service Key: Missing Google SafeBrowsing Key: Missing Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing Safe Mode: false
Mail and News Accounts account1: INCOMING: account1, , (imap) imap.gmail.com:993, SSL, OAuth2 OUTGOING: , smtp.gmail.com:465, SSL, OAuth2, true
account2: INCOMING: account2, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for your latest reply. I've just posted the info you requested. I trimmed off from the bottom so that the system would accept the post. As a result my post includes everything down through the Graphics header, but omits what comes after that (i.e., it leaves out the Media header and everything beneath that.)
Thanks again, Richard
Ilungisiwe
Hi Matt (or others). Have you got any more suggestions for me after reviewing the Troubleshooting report that I posted for you two days ago.
Thank you!
~Richard
Hi Matt (or anyone else): I haven't heard back from anyone in 5 days. I haven't been able to use Thunderbird for a week (7 days). Do you have any idea what I can do about it?
Many thanks!
Richard
Hmmm. I haven't been able to use Thunderbird for 10 days now. Does anyone have ideas? Any chance it would help if I uninstall and reinstall Thunderbird? If yes, how can I do that without losing the entries in my Thunderbird Address Book?
Thanks for any advice!
Richard
Gosh, I haven't received a follow-up response for 12 days. Can anyone help me?
FYI, I went ahead and uninstalled, then reinstalled Thunderbird. Unfortunately that didn't help. I still can't see any of my email messages.