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11-09-20 23:47 August Abolins wrote to All about TB dropping ngs
Howdy! August,

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 AA> ** On Sunday 01.11.20 - 18:31, August Abolins wrote to All:

 AA> I am noticing that Thunderbird (TB) is dropping some
 AA> subscribed ngs over time - and thus forcing me to re-
 AA> subscribe. And when that happens, all previously "read"
 AA> messages appear unread.

 AA> Anyone else experiencing that in your config?


 ::::UPDATE: It appears that TB on my Win7 pc has given up.
 AA> Every reload attempt fails with the only options to either
 AA> Restart/Quit and/or send the debug report to Mozilla.

 AA> I feel so let down by TB. I had considered it to be extremely
 AA> reliable over the years.

 AA> Moving the Profile environment to another Win7 pc produces the
 AA> same results.  It is having a problem with something in the
 AA> Profile set of files. I wonder if there is a way to exclude
 AA> (perhaps delete) some of the larger ng files and recover. I'd
 AA> hate to reconfig every server and all my email stuff.

Sorry to hear about Your TB problems.

I use TB on this XP 32-bit computer just for Email.
I tried once reading BBS messages in a newsgroup link but wasn't satisfied
doing it that way.

Many years ago I thought to use TB's "Compact" option, thinking it would
reduce TB using some HDD Space, after Compacting finished TB's In-Box didn't
have any messages in it.

I think I had over 1000 messages in the In-Box before I Compacted TB but
I never have been able to learn how I could had recovered those messages
back when they disappeared.

I had made some Sub-Directories below the In-Box Directory for storing
messages by Topic  and the Compacting process didn't mess with the messages
I had put in those Sub-Directories.

See Tagline.

73 de Ed W9ODR          .       .

... Here On Earth Computers Alway Win Because THEY Have Inside Information
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