Hello Viktor, (we talking now about a complete different issue ...)
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 09:44:00PM +0000, Viktor Jägersküpper wrote: > Dear Gerald, > > Gerald Turner: > > BTW, I'm having a frustrating time post-migration: My profile is 49GB, > > Thunderbird decided it needs to re-download all that mail, and it has > > also fogotten my per-folder "Sort By > Threaded" preference, that I'll > > have to re-click hundreds of times, but only after waiting few days for > > that 49GB to be synchronized so that the UI is less frozen. I have two > > other installations of Thunderbird that will likely face the same fate. > > I tested the Thunderbird packages last year and also experienced > something like this because I also moved .icedove to .thunderbird > manually once, but I don't remember the details. As far as I know, this > is a bug in Thunderbird (upstream). to know what really going wrong here would help to open up a upstream bug then. I haven't had such problems in the past so I can do much here. > I recommend you to wait with the upgrade of the icedove packages on your > two other installations until this bug is fixed, so that you won't have > to move .icedove to .thunderbird manually there and you won't suffer > from the Thunderbird bug (re-downloading etc.). Or use the already migrated profile and transfer this to the other PCs. It's unlikely that upstream will fix this problem in the near future. Regards Carsten
