Thunderbird 0.8

Aw Damn. I just updated my thunderbird to version 8 and attempted to convert all of my previous RSS feeds (which were being controlled via the Forumzilla extension [refer]) to the new in-built RSS handling mechanism. Unfortunately the thing doesn’t appear to be getting any of the feeds.

I’ve created a new “RSS & News Blogs” account, and then added all the subscriptions from my old list of subscriptions, and the folder appears to have the messages - but upon clicking on any of the titles the messages appear blank - not only in the preview pane, but upon double-clicking as well.

I have a *feeling* that this problem might be related to converting my seperate email-accounts into the single “Local” folder, instead of having 3 collections of Inboxes (one per email account), having a single Inbox for all my incoming mail. This functionality is new for version 0.8 and is great, especially because it was my main complaint with the previous versions, but i would gladly go back to have the 3 seperate inboxes if it meant that this RSS-Feed reader would work again.

My problem obviously now is, do i re-install the forumzilla extension and go back to the old way of handling my RSS feeds? Do i just hang-on for a while and see if this problem vanishes?

**Update**
It appears i have to have uninstalled the Forumzilla plugin before hand, and possibly re-created my Profile for the in-built RSS Aggregator to work (Thanks to Brian Duff) - i’ll comment on whether this works when i get around to it.

**Update 2**
All is well, i simply deleted my “RSS” account, then went through my “Mail” folder (see: Docs & Settings/User/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/default/*.slt/Mail) and deleted all the folders which i thought should’ve been modified when i updated Thunderbird to version 0.8 (I made backups, not just deleted :P) - So after re-creating all my RSS entries everything appears to be working great.

Posted by Christian 16 September 2004

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