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thunderbird 60.4.0 32bit Win10 suddenly doesn't show list of emails in any folder

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no probs, then suddenly won't show emails from any folder. Repairing folders works until u click on another folder. rebooted: no change. uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled: no change. rebooted again: no change. Help!

no probs, then suddenly won't show emails from any folder. Repairing folders works until u click on another folder. rebooted: no change. uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled: no change. rebooted again: no change. Help!
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It looks like you have all the Quick Filter Bar buttons, Unread, Starred etc., depressed and pinned, which is why you see 'No results' next to the search box. Click the buttons to toggle them off.

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Back up first, then delete index.msf file

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It looks like you have all the Quick Filter Bar buttons, Unread, Starred etc., depressed and pinned, which is why you see 'No results' next to the search box. Click the buttons to toggle them off.

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frcfeng said

Back up first, then delete index.msf file

Searched 4 index.msf, not on my pc. Googled it, told me to rebuild global database by deleting global-messages-db.sqlite. Didn't work

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sfhowes said

It looks like you have all the Quick Filter Bar buttons, Unread, Starred etc., depressed and pinned, which is why you see 'No results' next to the search box. Click the buttons to toggle them off.

Never even looked at those buttons. My wife must have done it, ha;happened while she was on pc. Toggled off, now it works! Thank u thank u thank u!