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Several email accounts but can only load one at a time. Thunderbird 38.4.0.

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I have several email accounts. I can only open / load one account. To load the other accounts I have to click on the account I want to open, then I have to shut down Thunderbird and reopen Thunderbird. Then I can see the emails in that account. Then to open another email account I have to click on that account, shut down Thunderbird, restart Thunderbird, and because I clicked on the account I wanted to be on prior to shutting it down, I can look at those emails.

I cannot open Thunderbird and move between accounts and have the emails load.

I am using Thunderbird 38.4.0.

This is on a Mac OSX Mavericks OS.

I have several email accounts. I can only open / load one account. To load the other accounts I have to click on the account I want to open, then I have to shut down Thunderbird and reopen Thunderbird. Then I can see the emails in that account. Then to open another email account I have to click on that account, shut down Thunderbird, restart Thunderbird, and because I clicked on the account I wanted to be on prior to shutting it down, I can look at those emails. I cannot open Thunderbird and move between accounts and have the emails load. I am using Thunderbird 38.4.0. This is on a Mac OSX Mavericks OS.

Modified by Wayne Mery

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Did this happen also with version 38.3.0?

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No it did not happen with any earlier version of Thunderbird. 38.4.0 is the culprit.

I spent close to four hours yesterday saving my profile, taking off Thunderbird 38.4.0, installing an earlier version of Thunderbird, and replacing my profile.

Some way to spend Thanksgiving.

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Please copy the list of addons you have installed from help | Troubleshooting an dpost them here. Thanks

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After Thursday's mess, I installed Thunderbird 38.2.0

The following are the add ons that are installed:

ImportExportTools 3.2.4.1

Recover deleted messages 0.4

Remove Duplicate messages 0.1.14

Signature Switch 1.6.13