Hello 
in thunderbird, after using the “archive” option for all the mails in the ‘inbox’ directory I have plenty of mails that look empty : no subject, empty page when clicking on it , they only show 1st of jan 1970 01:00 in on column.
Does it ring a bell for you ? (I have something like 800 mails in this case …)
Thanks
IMHO you’d be better off in the Thunderbird support forums.
i’ve been there already, but they said it might be linked with the fact that 1st of jan 1970 01:00 is linux system date for zero (??)
I know that. UNIX date and time are counted in seconds from that point. Any backup of ~/.thunderbird ?
i’m afraid i don’t have any backup 
On 2013-07-12 15:16, manchette fr wrote:
>
> Hello
> in thunderbird, after using the “archive” option for all the mails in
> the ‘inbox’ directory I have plenty of mails that look empty : no
> subject, empty page when clicking on it , they only show 1st of jan 1970
> 01:00 in on column.
> Does it ring a bell for you ? (I have something like 800 mails in this
> case …)
> Thanks
I don’t move any posts to that “folder” because I don’t really know what
it is. I think I moved some once and they got lost.
However, if the account is a gmail one, that folder matches the “all
mail” folder on the upstream server. I have not copied anything there,
it is automatic.
For other, non-gmail accounts, I don’t know what is there, where it
comes from.
So first you have to find out if the folder is stored upstream or local
on your computer.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 07/12/2013 06:48 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On 2013-07-12 15:16, manchette fr wrote:
>> Hello
>> in thunderbird, after using the “archive” option for all the mails in
>> the ‘inbox’ directory I have plenty of mails that look empty : no
>> subject, empty page when clicking on it , they only show 1st of jan 1970
>> 01:00 in on column.
>> Does it ring a bell for you ? (I have something like 800 mails in this
>> case …)
>> Thanks
> I don’t move any posts to that “folder” because I don’t really know what
> it is. I think I moved some once and they got lost.
It’s simply a folder for saving interesting messages.
>
> However, if the account is a gmail one, that folder matches the “all
> mail” folder on the upstream server. I have not copied anything there,
> it is automatic.
>
> For other, non-gmail accounts, I don’t know what is there, where it
> comes from.
>
> So first you have to find out if the folder is stored upstream or local
> on your computer.
It’s local to your computer and messages are stored in a folder with the
year of the archive. It’s great for a few messages but I wouldn’t use it
for hundreds.
Ken
On 2013-07-13 01:51, Ken Schneider wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 06:48 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
>> So first you have to find out if the folder is stored upstream or local
>> on your computer.
>
> It’s local to your computer and messages are stored in a folder with the
> year of the archive. It’s great for a few messages but I wouldn’t use it
> for hundreds.
Not that simple.
As I said, the Archive for gmail accounts is by default at gmail.com,
and mine has something like 200000 emails.
There is also a “Local Folders” Archive which has what you say, one
folder per year, with about 20 “conversations” each.
If you go to the edit/accounts dialog, under “copies and folders” of
each account there is a setting for defining where each archive actually
is. For gmail accounts it appears to go to “All Mail” on gmail.com, and
for others it goes some times on the imap server, other times to the
“Archives” folder locally.
So the first thing is to determine where is it actually going.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
hello,
i never used this ‘archive’ stuff before but i recently learned that ‘inbox’ is a working dir and not for ‘archives’ , thus i used the ad hoc option , see here if interested : Performance - Thunderbird - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
if upstream is only for imap accounts then i have all local on the pc
On 2013-07-13 08:16, manchette fr wrote:
> if upstream is only for imap accounts then i have all local on the pc
Verify that in your configuration. You decided where that is stored.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 07/13/2013 08:16 AM, manchette fr wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i never used this ‘archive’ stuff before but i recently learned that
> ‘inbox’ is a working dir and not for ‘archives’ , thus i used the ad hoc
> option , see here if interested : ‘Performance - Thunderbird -
> MozillaZine Knowledge Base’
> (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Performance_(Thunderbird))
>
> if upstream is only for imap accounts then i have all local on the pc
Check this article to understand the Thunderbird Archive feature.
http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/archived-messages
You may be better off asking in the mozilla.support.thunderbird
newsgroup on news.mozilla.com.
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Christian