Tb Going Offline ("Self Solved")

[John Liebson]

For the past week or more, I have found Tb going offline without my using File/Offline. I have only seen this when I wake the computer; I think that it has only happened overnight, and not during the day (Windows set to put the machine to sleep after two hours, and sometimes I am away from the machine for a long enough time for it to be put to sleep.)

Any idea as to what might be causing Tb to suffer from narcolepsy, and if so, how to cure it?

[tanstaafl]

Perhaps its a side effect of a recent update to Windows 10 exposing some flaw in your BIOS. Try having Windows hibernate rather than sleep. See http://www.pcworld.com/article/3078533/ ... -menu.html

[John Liebson]

Perhaps its a side effect of a recent update to Windows 10 exposing some flaw in your BIOS. Try having Windows hibernate rather than sleep. See http://www.pcworld.com/article/3078533/ ... -menu.html

Possible, but I doubt it: Most recent Windows 10 updates were 21/23 Feb., Malicious Software Removal Tool, Intel Display (I don't know what that was, just its name,) and Adobe Flash Player Update. I also believe (don't know, just believe) that these were before Tb got tired of being online, and don't seem to have much to do with BIOS. However, I suppose that the Intel update might have such an effect.

I'll try hibernate; maybe I will hibernate, except that it is really too warm in New Mexico for that, with temperatures well above normal.

[John Liebson]

Set the computer to Hibernate yesterday afternoon. Woke it a few minutes ago, Tb was offline.

[tanstaafl]

https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Thunderb ... -p/1016410 reports a similar problem in 2015, no solution.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/303098 reported a similar problem worked around by deleting the google contacts add-on.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... s#-offline describes a -offline command line parameter, but doesn't mention a corresponding one for online. Try selecting "online" in using tools -> options -> network & disk space -> offline and see if that helps.

[John Liebson]

I reset Options/Network/Offline from "Automatically follow..." to "Manual State...Online"; this morning, Tb was online when I woke the computer. I am gong to reset to Automatically, to test this; if tomorrow morning, Tb is offline, I shall change back and mark this as solved.

[John Liebson]

Today is the fourth day in a row with Tb reset to its original "Automatically follow..." setting that Tb was online when I woke the computer; it appears as though the problem solved itself.

I may have discovered a new way of fixing computer problems, as the Tb incident is the second "self-solved" problem I have had recently, the other being with a new mouse losing its Bluetooth connection; I started a thread about that on the Windows 10 forums, whereupon the problem stopped.