[Sussex] Thunderbird Problem

[Desmond Armstrong]

Having spent some hours on this task I solved it in the following way.
1/ backup the .thunderbird identity.
2/ delete .thunderbird
3/ start thunderbird and manually add the various accounts again.
4/ copy the data from the backup and put in the proper mailbox folders 
on the new identity.
The files concerned are the ones without the .msf extension
5/ copy the address book (abook.mab) to the new identity
The system is now working fine but it did take some time to find out how 
to to do this, so, if anybody has better idea I would like to hear.
Also I would like to know how it managed to hog the CPU.

Desmond Armstrong wrote:

> Dear Experts,
> I have run into a problem with Thunderbird.
> I was cleaning it up and now when I start it it takes all the CPU and 
> I don't know how long it is carrying on for like this.
> I have scanned belatedly using clam av and found a number of viruses, 
> but I can't see that this could have any effect.
> Can anybody suggest what I can do to unlock this problem.
> Regards.
>
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