Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/06/06 14:53

Bob wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>> Bob wrote:
>>>
>>>> Firefox groups all shut down on the Netscape server months ago.
>>>>
>>>> :P
>>>
>>> What?! Don't think so. Been subscribed to news.mozilla.org for
>>> sometime now to NG's
>>> netscape.public.mozilla.wishlist, netscape.public.mozilla.browser,
>>> netscape.public.mozilla.dom, netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
>>>
>>> all see alive and well...
>>
>> I don't know what happened. I was subscribed via Thunderbird, but then
>> one day it would never load from the server, and for weeks after it
>> would never load. I figured it was down. Eventually I deleted the
>> account. What happened? How do I add it back in?
>
> Thx. I guess the account got corrupted on the drive in one of its log
> files? Is that possible?
>
> I deleted the account and added it back in and now it works again. Thx
> so much!

Yep, but I have found all you have to do is traverse to the profile
folder usually on Windows:

C:\Documents and Settings\[profile]\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\[salt].default

Go to the news server folder, this example:
...\News\news.mozilla.org

and delete the associated .msf file, e.g.:
netscape.public.mozilla.browser.msf

Oh! You must not be running Thunderbird during this!

Then fire up Thunderbird and redownload the headers for the group. No
recreated of account needed.

For POP mail sometimes the index file .msf can get corrupted. The same
procedure can fix it. I will rebuild the summery with no loss of data.
just don't delete the file with no extension, like "Inbox" or that will
delete all your messages!

--
Take care,

Jonathan
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