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left hand column with contacts is gone

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I plagiarized the question of someone else as I have the same question. I ether did something or there was an update...that changed the look of Thunderbird. I always had a column on left side of window, with all my e-mail addresses and their folders(inbox, out box, trash ect). Today it's gone and I cant find where to bring it back. I have to use GO menu option to check other addresses. They did add a menu button as described at bottom of my attachment, but this doesn't seam to be a part of the problem. I went to go, all accounts are there. There is nothing to check or indicated how to remediate the problem.

I plagiarized the question of someone else as I have the same question. I ether did something or there was an update...that changed the look of Thunderbird. I always had a column on left side of window, with all my e-mail addresses and their folders(inbox, out box, trash ect). Today it's gone and I cant find where to bring it back. I have to use GO menu option to check other addresses. They did add a menu button as described at bottom of my attachment, but this doesn't seam to be a part of the problem. I went to go, all accounts are there. There is nothing to check or indicated how to remediate the problem.

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View/Layout/Folder Pane. Press Alt if the Menu Bar with View is hidden.

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When I did the above, the left hand column showing all my email accounts,. is there. What has disappeared is the list of contacts when I attempt to write an email.

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Press F9 in the Write window to show the Contacts sidebar.

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Nothing happened when I pressed the F9 button on the keyboard. If you can, let's keep trying.

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Press F9 in the Write window, not the main window. Or, View/Contacts sidebar. Press Alt if the Menu Bar is hidden.

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Same as above

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Try safe mode: hold Option when you launch TB, or Help/Restart with Add-ons disabled.