How do I reset the email delete confirmation pop-up? Thunderbird v.38.6
1.) How do I reset the email delete confirmation pop-up? I'd like to be confirmed & I accidentally turned it off.
2.) I was thinking If I uninstalled Thunderbird I would have to reinstall TZ push & all my email accounts from a clean install of Thunderbird, correct? Surprisingly enough, after I reinstalled Thunderbird it actually contained the EZPush add on & all the email address accounts already listed. Is that a glitch or is it suppose to do that?
3.) In the future, How would I uninstall Thunderbird so that upon installation I would have to enter all my email address accts & add ons?
Thank you for your help?
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Re (1) I'm not sure when you expect the pop-up to appear. In my installation: - If I highlight a message in the message list and press the delete key, Thunderbird moves the message to the 'deleted' folder: it doesn't remove the message from the account and there is no pop-up. - If I right-click a message in the list and select the 'delete' option in the context menu, then it does remove the message from the account but again there is no pop-up. - If I highlight a message in the list, hold down the shift key and press the delete key, then I get a pop-up warning that the message will be removed from the account rather than moved to the 'deleted' folder. If that's the behaviour you were expecting, then go to Preferences > Advanced > Config Editor and make sure that the value of the parameter mail.warn_on_shift_delete is set to 'true'.
The answer to (2) and (3) lies in knowing about your Thunderbird profile. Your profile is a folder on your computer which stores all your emails, settings, add-ons etc. Where it is located depends on your operating system, but it's always in a different location from the actual program itself. The folder is normally 'hidden', so you will have to 'unhide' files and folders to find it. When you reinstall the program, the first thing Thunderbird does is to look for a profile folder in the place where it expects to find it. If it finds one there, it uses it. That is how it is designed to work in order to make updating and re-installation of the program easy for the user. If you don't want Thunderbird to use your existing profile when you reinstall then you can either move the profile folder (the whole folder with its contents) somewhere else on your computer or you can rename it so that Thunderbird doesn't recognise it as a profile folder. (A simple way is to rename the folder suffix: in my installation the folder name ends '.default' and you could just change that to '.old') We don't usually recommend that you delete the folder until you are sure that your new installation is running as you want it, because once the folder is gone you have lost all the contents. There are useful articles here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird