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Thunderbird go wrong after restarting (created new folders, resorted emails)

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Hi!

Some days ago my Thunderbird has hung. It hung very long, because of that I killed Thunderbird’s process. When I start Thunderbird the next time, I was wondered (see please screenshot). Thunderbird made a lot of fantastic errors (see below).

List of Thunderbird’s errors: 1. Thunderbird created (by itself) 5 new folders (4 of them are bold on the screenshot). And: 1.1. There are 2 folders ‘Deleted’ (there WAS only 1) 1.2. There is new folder ‘Drafts’ (before that I had this folder, but it had another name) 1.3. There are 3 folders ‘Inbox’ (there WERE only 1) 2. Thunderbird have (randomly) sorted emails between new folders (some emails have putted in one folder, other emails – in another folder; some emails have duplicated – they are in 2 or 3 folders at the same time) 3. Thunderbird have changed way, how to send emails. For example, I have sent an email, but it saved in wrong folder (compared to how it was before)

Had anybody such problems with Thunderbird? Is it possible to cure it? I have a feeling, that some configuration file was broken.

Grateful for help, Michael

Hi! Some days ago my Thunderbird has hung. It hung very long, because of that I killed Thunderbird’s process. When I start Thunderbird the next time, I was wondered (see please screenshot). Thunderbird made a lot of fantastic errors (see below). List of Thunderbird’s errors: 1. Thunderbird created (by itself) 5 new folders (4 of them are bold on the screenshot). And: 1.1. There are 2 folders ‘Deleted’ (there WAS only 1) 1.2. There is new folder ‘Drafts’ (before that I had this folder, but it had another name) 1.3. There are 3 folders ‘Inbox’ (there WERE only 1) 2. Thunderbird have (randomly) sorted emails between new folders (some emails have putted in one folder, other emails – in another folder; some emails have duplicated – they are in 2 or 3 folders at the same time) 3. Thunderbird have changed way, how to send emails. For example, I have sent an email, but it saved in wrong folder (compared to how it was before) Had anybody such problems with Thunderbird? Is it possible to cure it? I have a feeling, that some configuration file was broken. Grateful for help, Michael
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I have reconfigure manually. I can't to find a better answer.

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Press F10 On the menu bar that is now visible, select View and then folders. Select unified.

Thank you. But it is doesn't resolve my problem.

Are there any other ideas? (it is clearly, that I can anew manually reconfigure my Thunderbird, but it takes so much time...)

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I have reconfigure manually. I can't to find a better answer.