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Thunderbird just updated and most of my e-mails became unreadable

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cahwhite
cahwhite
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This is what most of my received e-mail messages now look like:

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Some e-mails can still be read but the message is from a previously deleted e-mail and is not what the current e-mail is about. (A message from a previous e-mail has been inserted into the body of the new e-mail and the info. in the new e-mail has vanished.)

Can someone help me? Thank you.

This is what most of my received e-mail messages now look like: <td align=3D"left" bgcolor=3D"#ED3B30"> <a href=3D"http://link.loyalty.redrobin.com/ls/click?upn=3Du001.wUM4R5W0= zrDSDItpXuBqugTMpSorAHcIwsXvA4K-2FnKF6bo9BCdzvz2Bu3QCgEYRInvC4dCNMjgIA7l-2B= XPz3HPhPYe-2FnEytYbblFPbxpL5LY-3DFZgW_dqnvyCqcK5HqBMmkgPKIyGBpJ0YnrcXh5jJKG= AIP80OCE7TKLT4moujp0yEm-2FxwQt29KPmWXoBvcBtfVAAnkKds27np2O6ZvsckgRHqE0aohmz= Some e-mails can still be read but the message is from a previously deleted e-mail and is not what the current e-mail is about. (A message from a previous e-mail has been inserted into the body of the new e-mail and the info. in the new e-mail has vanished.) Can someone help me? Thank you.

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Matt
Matt
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right click the folder, select properties from the menu and then the repair button.

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cahwhite
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Aren't you brilliant!! Thank you so much. That fixed 95% of the problem. In a few cases, the info. in the body of the e-mail has been switched. For example, the e-mail from my town telling me about the upcoming election shows information about an upcoming meeting at my church. The election info. has vanished and the previously deleted church's e-mail's information was substituted in its place. However, I can live without a few e-mails I think. thanks again.

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cahwhite
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I did what Matt said to do yesterday and it fixed the problem. All day today my messages arrived perfectly. then all of a sudden at 5 p.m. (PT), they all became scrambled again. I did the fix three times and it did not repair my e-mails so I could read them. Below is the beginning of one of the scrambled e-mails. Any suggestions? 

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