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5/27/2010 I had a problem with the index being out of sync with the messages in the inbox, so when I clicked on a subject, the message was not necessarily the right one, and some of the messages displayed wrong, like showing html in source form.  With a little research, I found [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders|this article] about compacting folders that explained a lot about Thunderbird files.
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5/27/2010 I had a problem with the index being out of sync with the messages in the inbox, so when I clicked on a subject, the message was not necessarily the right one, and some of the messages displayed wrong, like showing html in source form.  With a little research, I found [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders this article] about compacting folders that explained a lot about Thunderbird files.
 
There are strategies there for solving several problems, and what worked for me was exiting Thunderbird, going to the thunderbird profile C:\Users\eburdick\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\i0lcy4dt.default\Mail\mail.edburdick.net and deleting all of the *.msf files.  When I restarted Thunderbird, it recreated the files from the messages and things seem back to normal.  This has happened again a couple of times, and the same strategy seemed to help.
 
There are strategies there for solving several problems, and what worked for me was exiting Thunderbird, going to the thunderbird profile C:\Users\eburdick\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\i0lcy4dt.default\Mail\mail.edburdick.net and deleting all of the *.msf files.  When I restarted Thunderbird, it recreated the files from the messages and things seem back to normal.  This has happened again a couple of times, and the same strategy seemed to help.

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I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. Overall, it works well, but there have been issues, probably because I never seem to delete anything.

Folder corruption

5/27/2010 I had a problem with the index being out of sync with the messages in the inbox, so when I clicked on a subject, the message was not necessarily the right one, and some of the messages displayed wrong, like showing html in source form. With a little research, I found this article about compacting folders that explained a lot about Thunderbird files. There are strategies there for solving several problems, and what worked for me was exiting Thunderbird, going to the thunderbird profile C:\Users\eburdick\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\i0lcy4dt.default\Mail\mail.edburdick.net and deleting all of the *.msf files. When I restarted Thunderbird, it recreated the files from the messages and things seem back to normal. This has happened again a couple of times, and the same strategy seemed to help.