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On one of my accounts, the inbox order (Date) always reverts to oldest first on startup

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I manage 15 email accounts with Thunderbird. I order my inboxes by date, newest at the top. Generally, this maintains across application restarts - Thunderbird remembers that I want my inbox to come up with the newest at the top. I have one account, which is a gmail account, that always comes up in reverse order (oldest at top) after I restart Thunderbird. It comes up with the newest at the bottom of the list, and also is already scrolled down to the bottom of the list (which is handy, considering...). I can't see what I am doing to influence this one account inbox to behave differently. Can anyone suggest something for me to look at?

I manage 15 email accounts with Thunderbird. I order my inboxes by date, newest at the top. Generally, this maintains across application restarts - Thunderbird remembers that I want my inbox to come up with the newest at the top. I have one account, which is a gmail account, that always comes up in reverse order (oldest at top) after I restart Thunderbird. It comes up with the newest at the bottom of the list, and also is already scrolled down to the bottom of the list (which is handy, considering...). I can't see what I am doing to influence this one account inbox to behave differently. Can anyone suggest something for me to look at?

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using CCleaner by any chance?

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No, I use a Mac.

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The setting are stored in your profile is a session.json file. Look to see if that is surviving one session to the next.