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- Jan 20, 2004
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- Saltirelandia
Heads-up to all you Thunderbird users out there: using the recent update to 31.0 may COMPLETELY OBLITERATE the contents of your email folders. As in you may have had hundreds -- or in my case, many thousands -- of emails in your folders before the update but afterwards your folders will be nice and empty. That's a feature, no? Fetching new email works as expected.
FWIW I'm on Linux Mint 17. It seems I was "upgrading" from v24.4.0 to 31.0.0 when the impromptu house-cleaning happened.
I've uninstalled, restored my Thunderbird profile from backup and tried again with the same result: empty folders.
I'm now investigating the options for reverting to a previous version. Fingers crossed.
I've confirmed that this has happened to other users going back as far as v24.0 last September. Seems it's an intermittent thing and so far I haven't found a proper analysis and solution of the problem.
FWIW I'm on Linux Mint 17. It seems I was "upgrading" from v24.4.0 to 31.0.0 when the impromptu house-cleaning happened.
I've uninstalled, restored my Thunderbird profile from backup and tried again with the same result: empty folders.
I'm now investigating the options for reverting to a previous version. Fingers crossed.
I've confirmed that this has happened to other users going back as far as v24.0 last September. Seems it's an intermittent thing and so far I haven't found a proper analysis and solution of the problem.