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IMAP Downloads all emails everytime i launch

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Alistair Mckenzie
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Hi I have a few different email account personal and work only one of them is imap, have have recently moved to a new machine and used a backup programme to migrate my emails to new machine, since then everytime i launch Thunderbird the imap account redownload all 1200 emails. Obviously my question is how do i stop this from happening

Hi I have a few different email account personal and work only one of them is imap, have have recently moved to a new machine and used a backup programme to migrate my emails to new machine, since then everytime i launch Thunderbird the imap account redownload all 1200 emails. Obviously my question is how do i stop this from happening

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sfhowes
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You could try rebuilding the Inbox, by deleting the mbox and msf files, then restarting TB to create new ones and download from the IMAP server, hopefully only once:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders#Real_fix

Check that your antivirus excludes the TB profile folder, in case it is introducing some corruption.