Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-06 Thread g
On 07/06/15 11:16, jd1008 wrote: <<>> > I saved your message in my directory of How-To. > Mega Thanx! . most welcome. i do hope gmail will allow. -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out f

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-06 Thread jd1008
On 07/05/2015 09:09 PM, g wrote: On 07/04/15 15:44, jd1008 wrote: <<>> Well, now I must ask the list that since the messages that disappeared running the Repair folder in TB, are still on the gmail server. How can I get TB to download them all? Is there something I can do to TB or to my gm

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread g
On 07/04/15 15:44, jd1008 wrote: <<>> > Well, now I must ask the list that since the messages that disappeared > running the Repair folder in TB, are still on the gmail server. > > How can I get TB to download them all? > > Is there something I can do to TB or to my gmail account on > mail.googl

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 13:38 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/05/2015 01:23 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > Not so. The message is still there, but it's marked in the index > > as > > deleted. The file isn't re-written until it's compacted. > > I know. And that reduced the frequency of the re-write

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/05/2015 01:23 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Not so. The message is still there, but it's marked in the index as deleted. The file isn't re-written until it's compacted. I know. And that reduced the frequency of the re-write somewhat, but it doesn't change it fundamentally. Removing a message f

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/05/2015 12:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: With mbox, any time you remove a message from a folder (either deleting it or moving it to another folder), the entire mbox file has to be re-written. If you delete/move a message from a very large folder, that can generate a lot of disk activity, a

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/05/2015 01:03 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/05/2015 12:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Yes and no. If you make a backup copy of your data just before trying to recover and the recovery process messes up, you can always try again. That really only matters if the index is damaged, and not the da

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread jd1008
On 07/05/2015 01:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/04/2015 02:16 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 07/04/2015 03:00 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: If you're connecting over IMAP, you can delete the cache: rm -rf .thunderbird/*.default/ImapMail/imap.googlemail.com* Using pop - I had had undesireable experienc

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/05/2015 12:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: Yes and no. If you make a backup copy of your data just before trying to recover and the recovery process messes up, you can always try again. That really only matters if the index is damaged, and not the data file. If the mbox data file is damaged, re

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/05/2015 12:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: By that time, it was already too late. Backing up corrupt data really doesn't do you much good. You needed a backup from before it became corrupt. Yes and no. If you make a backup copy of your data just before trying to recover and the recovery

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/04/2015 02:16 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 07/04/2015 03:00 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: If you're connecting over IMAP, you can delete the cache: rm -rf .thunderbird/*.default/ImapMail/imap.googlemail.com* Using pop - I had had undesireable experience with Imap, so I switched to pop. One of the rea

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/15 20:15, jd1008 wrote: > On 07/04/2015 05:55 PM, g wrote: >> On 07|--04|--15 14:56, jd1008 wrote: >>> Many emails in my Inbox no longer display. >> what is displayed is set by select in main menu bar; >> >> View > Folders > [X] All >> >> also, in main menu, you can select; >> >>

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread jd1008
On 07/04/2015 05:55 PM, g wrote: On 07|--04|--15 14:56, jd1008 wrote: Many emails in my Inbox no longer display. what is displayed is set by select in main menu bar; View > Folders > [X] All also, in main menu, you can select; Edit > [account name] > Server Settings > Server Setti

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread g
On 07|--04|--15 14:56, jd1008 wrote: > > Many emails in my Inbox no longer display. what is displayed is set by select in main menu bar; View > Folders > [X] All also, in main menu, you can select; Edit > [account name] > Server Settings > Server Settings [X] Leave messages on serve

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread jd1008
On 07/04/2015 03:00 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/04/2015 01:44 PM, jd1008 wrote: Well, now I must ask the list that since the messages that disappeared running the Repair folder in TB, are still on the gmail server. How can I get TB to download them all? Is there something I can do to TB or

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/04/2015 01:44 PM, jd1008 wrote: Well, now I must ask the list that since the messages that disappeared running the Repair folder in TB, are still on the gmail server. How can I get TB to download them all? Is there something I can do to TB or to my gmail account on mail.google.com that will

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread jd1008
On 07/04/2015 02:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/04/2015 01:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: Well, that was interesting! Many messages that WERE getting displayed, have completely disappeared after running Repair. That is Baad!!! I'm very, very sorry; I never would have thought that using Repair woul

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread jd1008
On 07/04/2015 02:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/04/2015 01:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: Well, that was interesting! Many messages that WERE getting displayed, have completely disappeared after running Repair. That is Baad!!! I'm very, very sorry; I never would have thought that using Repair woul

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/04/2015 01:23 PM, jd1008 wrote: Well, that was interesting! Many messages that WERE getting displayed, have completely disappeared after running Repair. That is Baad!!! I'm very, very sorry; I never would have thought that using Repair would make things worse. I would suggest that

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread jd1008
On 07/04/2015 02:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 07/04/2015 12:56 PM, jd1008 wrote: Many emails in my Inbox no longer display. I mean I can see the emails listed in chronological order from oldest at top to newest at bottom. But many older emails simply do not display when I click on the email in t

Re: Thunderbird question

2015-07-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/04/2015 12:56 PM, jd1008 wrote: Many emails in my Inbox no longer display. I mean I can see the emails listed in chronological order from oldest at top to newest at bottom. But many older emails simply do not display when I click on the email in the list. I have exited TB and restarted it