Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Thunderbird Ghost Folders

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Thunderbird Ghost Folders

    Running Thunderbird 3.1.11 w/ multiple pop3 accounts. It's been great for years.
    Tried to add a new account yesterday. Used the auto mail setup rather than doing it manually, which was a mistake.
    It balked and I now have:
    a blank account with an INBOX, which doesn't show up in Edit->Account settings but which gives the following error if I try to do anything with the INBOX (just highlighting it gives the error, so I can't get attributes or delete it)
    Unable to open the summary file for INBOX. Perhaps there was an error on disk, or the full path is too long.
    Can't find this account or INBOX in my profile either.

    [img width=400 height=74]http://i.imgur.com/CDSrd.png[/img]

    The other thing I have is the new account I made manually BUT it also doesn't show up in Edit->Account settings and I can't find it in my profile folder. It seems to work fine otherwise, but it is weird.

    I've deleted panacea.dat as well as all the .msf files n my profile.

    Any idea where to start looking next? I want to get rid of the ghost and I'd like to be able to edit the 'invisible' account info too.

    Thanks
    Attached Files
    Dont pretend you havent noticed my cardboard box, Julia, because I know you have!

    #2
    Re: Thunderbird Ghost Folders

    At the command line, what do see in the .thunderbird/<random>.default/Mail folder?
    The next brick house on the left
    Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11​| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic



    Comment


      #3
      Re: Thunderbird Ghost Folders

      Just the usual not no folders for the word mailbox.
      I dug through prefs.js and commented out a bunch of lines that referred to the ghost -- that seems to have fixed it.
      Dont pretend you havent noticed my cardboard box, Julia, because I know you have!

      Comment

      Working...
      X