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By: GameProducer.Net » Rise Above the Storm And You Will Find the Sunshine

GameProducer.Net » Rise Above the Storm And You Will Find the Sunshine — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:04:52 +0000

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By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:23:59 +0000

@Rich: Yes… I tried that. But there’s a small problem: App Data\Mozilla\… shows only Firefox anymore – Thunderbird folder has vanished somewhere.

Gmail has one problem: I’ve heard horror stories about people using poor password, and getting hacked… with firewalls & backups I think I’m safer here :)

By: Wazoo’s Blogolicious » The web is a permanent, persistant, everlasting database (don’t blog angry pt. III)

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:47:37 +0000

[...] Juuso had a bad experience with losing data during a system crash. As a matter of complete coincidence, I myself have just JUST moved my email client over to Outlook2007 and I’m impressed thus far. I had nothing but various lockups with Thunderbird, so I’m crossing my fingers… [...]

By: Paul Mendoza

Paul Mendoza — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:03:49 +0000

That really sucks. I rely on Gmail. I really hope that they back things up on their servers… *crosses fingers*

By: Rich Buggy

Rich Buggy — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:01:45 +0000

It’s been a while since I used Windows so this is from memory. 99.9% of the time when this occurs your email is still safe as it’s just the indexes that have been lost. All you need to do is remove the index files and Thunderbird will rebuild them for you.

The first thing you need to do is locate your Thunderbird data directory. The path will be something like C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\…

From memory the Application Data folder is a hidden folder so you need to tell Windows to show hidden folders or you won’t see it. Once you find the right folder delete the index files and restart Thunderbird. All should be well.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:22:16 +0000

Gmail is web-based and gives you lots of free storage.

By: Roman Buodzwski

Roman Buodzwski — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:53:35 +0000

I sure that hurts. Opera did piss me off once – it forced me to download all emails from all my email accounts – 12k of them (after a crash, all emails were in, so I had to delete 12k double emails).

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:10:51 +0000

I donâ€™t think it deleted your emails; it probably just whacked part of your profile. Your emails should be intact in the Thunderbird profile folder.

Not quite sure where that is on Windows, though. Try the Application Support directory.

> That’s what I thought as well, but nooo… profile is GONE. All gone. Vanished. Cleaned. Me really close to say “really pissed off” ;)

By: Zorgg

Zorgg — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:41:13 +0000

Uninterruptible Power Supply?

By: &nbsp Don’t Blog Angry » GBGames - Thoughts on Indie Game Development

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:48:09 +0000

[...] Donâ€™t Publish Blog Entries When You Are Really Angry documents the frustration Juuso recently had with software. It’s never a good situation to be in when your computer shuts down suddenly only to tell you that it seems to have misplaced your email. I donâ€™t know if itâ€™s Microsoftâ€™s fault or Mozillaâ€™s fault (or my fault), but that really doesnâ€™t matter. What matters is how the heck Iâ€™m going to find those emails again. I have backups, but they are few days old. [...]