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by nativeit 346 days ago
So…do it. Sounds like it’d make a great case study that would get a person tons of attention and praise on HN, a real feather to put in one’s cap.

Literally nothing stopping anyone in this thread from opening a PR with this reportedly “very easy” fix that’s eluded developers for nearly two decades, and is so terrible folks swear off Thunderbird forever because I guess for email very basic rules for backing up data don’t apply (or something?) and/or Gmail and Outlook are implicitly trustworthy?
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thaumasiotes 346 days ago
> and is so terrible folks swear off Thunderbird forever because I guess for email very basic rules for backing up data don’t apply (or something?)

Well, this bug literally causes Thunderbird to delete your original copies of data during the backup process, so I'm not sure why backing up your data is supposed to be the solution.

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jazzyjackson 345 days ago
Thunderbird stores mail locally on disk.

If you're keeping backups of your disk, then this bug is not unrecoverable.

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1718627440 345 days ago
But keep in mind, that this is a cache. An UIDVALIDITY change will wipe everything out.
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mixmastamyk 346 days ago
Did a developer ever try? Reading the issue, found only one person asking for test cases and trying to close it.
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thaumasiotes 346 days ago
One of the many comments on the issue notes that although the bug has reoccurred in every version of Windows, it might not get much attention from developers because it is catalogued as something specific to Windows XP.

Nobody in the intervening nine years followed up by updating the bug's metadata, though. It's still "Windows XP only".

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