Thunderbird remains blank 5 out of 6 times I open it

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stressi7
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Thunderbird remains blank 5 out of 6 times I open it

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Ever so often when I open Thunderbird it is just plank:
https://ibb.co/kQm4d6

I don't know what to do sometimes, when I am lucky it looks like it should:
https://ibb.co/ct7zBR

What can I do? ](*,)
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Moving to Thunderbird Support.

How is the account set up in Thunderbird, as POP or IMAP? Find out using menu path Tools->Account Settings->Server Settings->Server Type at the top right of the dialogue.
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DanRaisch wrote:Moving to Thunderbird Support.

How is the account set up in Thunderbird, as POP or IMAP? Find out using menu path Tools->Account Settings->Server Settings->Server Type at the top right of the dialogue.
I have 6 accounts there, 2 for studies, 4 privates. 4 are IMAP I guess.
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More details will be needed if we are to help you. Is the problem of blank messages occurring in all account, several accounts, just one? If not all accounts, are those accounts POP or IMAP?
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Does it happen when you start Thunderbird soon after you open your session or when something else happens in the background?

I use Thunderbird Portable, so it's the same edition I use on two different computers. I had noticed a problem happening about 50 % of the time on one computer and never on the other one. In my case, I got what seemed the complete page, but menus were not active and nothing happended. I had to force-quit Thunderbird and restart it and then everything was fine.

It turned out that I was usually starting Thunderbird right after I opened my computer session. In the background, I also have a Google Drive sync on that computer. The sync is a bit disk intensive, so the mechanical disk was a bit delayed. I concluded that it sounds like Thunderbird allows, say, 30 seconds to fully open; if it doesn't, then it freezes. Now I make sure to open Thunderbird by itself, then only start other applications when Thunderbird is fully open. No issues since then.

So as a solution, I would suggest that you make sure you start Thunderbird when no other major activity occurs at the same time. For example, don't start Thunderbird, Word, Photoshop and Firefox at the same time...

Hope that helps.
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Re: Thunderbird remains blank 5 out of 6 times I open it

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stressi7 wrote:Ever so often (when you are unlucky) when I open Thunderbird it is just plank:
https://ibb.co/kQm4d6
That's pretty strange. Such issues usually fail consistently.
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That's exactly what I covered previously. If you just turned on your computer or opened your session, wait a few minutes before you start Thunderbird so all background are over.
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