Anodyne
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
 

This morning's surprise: approximately 600 missing email messages. Scheduled on my own for six hours and unable to lock myself in the office with the misbehaving box, I gamely reinstalled Thunderbird, built a new user profile, stewed all afternoon, and then, at 8:01 p.m., with the door locked against the wind and intermittent rain, sat down and tried to puzzle out the problem:

%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles

Where were the reams of pithy correspondence from collaborators, interlocuters, photo critics, muses & long-suffering editors?

C:\Documents and Settings\user\ApplicationData\Thunderbird\Profiles\[HIDDEN VALUE].default\Mail\Local Folders

Create folder. Select all. Copy to. Move to. Uninstall Thunderbird. Reinstall. Create new user profile. Migrate data. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Thunderbird.exe

All the old folders simultaneously blinked back into existence.

A rare moment of pure satisfaction, the coach class passenger who got called up to the cockpit when the pilot and co-pilot died and everyone else on board came down with food poisoning, the mechanically clueless critic who piloted the lumbering plane down the Fraser Valley through the clouds, out over the ocean, dumped fuel, banked the plane, dropped the wheels, hit the glide path at the right angle, put the plane on the runway, and didn't even graze the terminal as he brought the aircraft to a gentle, graceful stop.
- posted by cjb @ 9:20 PM


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