Hi Bill, To restore corrupted mailboxes:
1. Quit Thunderbird. 2. In your profile folder, open the Mail subfolder, and then the subfolder for that mail account. Delete the *.msf file for the folder (mailbox) that is giving you problems-- e.g., if your inbox is the one with problems, delete inbox.msf. Do NOT delete the file named Inbox (with no filename extension), as it contains your messages. 3. Restart Thunderbird. It will analyse your message file and rebuild the index file (table of contents) from your existing messages. To help keep your system healthy after you get it working again, compact your mail folders regularly, and move messages you want to keep out of your inbox into their own mail folder. Where is my Profile Folder? On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/ (~ represents your Home Directory) Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/07/2011, at 10:24 AM, Bill Parker wrote: > > Hi Folk, > > I have a a an issue with a corrupted maibox on Thunderbird. There are three > email addresses in and it does NOt appear to affect the INbox but only two > others. > > > is there a website I can go to to get a solution? Most of it is, as usual, > Windows. > > > Bill > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
