I'm using TBird 115.9.0 under Windows - with an IMAP server. It all works
fine, except...

Occasionally, for whatever reason, the visual display gets out of sync with
reality - it shows a folder that doesn't exist, or it shows a folder in the
wrong place or ... When I click on or otherwise try to access these
phantom folders, I get an error message.

I've found that I can fix this by exiting/re-entering TBird. On the
restart, the display is back in sync with reality. But I'm wondering if
there is an easier/better way. Something like with editors where you can
press something like ^L to re-draw the screen.

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On 18/04/2024 at 16:22, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> I'm using TBird 115.9.0 under Windows - with an IMAP server. It all works
> fine, except...
>
> Occasionally, for whatever reason, the visual display gets out of sync with
> reality - it shows a folder that doesn't exist, or it shows a folder in the
> wrong place or ... When I click on or otherwise try to access these
> phantom folders, I get an error message.
>
> I've found that I can fix this by exiting/re-entering TBird. On the
> restart, the display is back in sync with reality. But I'm wondering if
> there is an easier/better way. Something like with editors where you can
> press something like ^L to re-draw the screen.
>

It's probably not the screen that's out of sync but the underlying
engine out of sync with the data files. Only a restart will fix that.

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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:22:18 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack wrote:
> I'm using TBird 115.9.0 under Windows - with an IMAP server. It all works
> fine, except...
>
> Occasionally, for whatever reason, the visual display gets out of sync with
> reality - it shows a folder that doesn't exist, or it shows a folder in the
> wrong place or ... When I click on or otherwise try to access these
> phantom folders, I get an error message.

Shift+F5 is supposed to make it reread everything from the server.
(Plain F5 does it with just the currently selected folder.)

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In article <MPG.408b3286b47034a19902cf@news.individual.net>,
Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:22:18 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> I'm using TBird 115.9.0 under Windows - with an IMAP server. It all works
>> fine, except...
>>
>> Occasionally, for whatever reason, the visual display gets out of sync with
>> reality - it shows a folder that doesn't exist, or it shows a folder in the
>> wrong place or ... When I click on or otherwise try to access these
>> phantom folders, I get an error message.
>
>Shift+F5 is supposed to make it reread everything from the server.
>(Plain F5 does it with just the currently selected folder.)

Really?? Cool - I'll have to try that.

I'll have to be a bt careful, though, since I have thousands of messages in
some of my folders. I hope "everything" doesn't mean too much...

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In article <uvrg7d$2b9j4$3@dont-email.me>,
Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
>On 18/04/2024 at 16:22, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>> I'm using TBird 115.9.0 under Windows - with an IMAP server. It all works
>> fine, except...
>>
>> Occasionally, for whatever reason, the visual display gets out of sync with
>> reality - it shows a folder that doesn't exist, or it shows a folder in the
>> wrong place or ... When I click on or otherwise try to access these
>> phantom folders, I get an error message.
>>
>> I've found that I can fix this by exiting/re-entering TBird. On the
>> restart, the display is back in sync with reality. But I'm wondering if
>> there is an easier/better way. Something like with editors where you can
>> press something like ^L to re-draw the screen.
>>
>
>It's probably not the screen that's out of sync but the underlying
>engine out of sync with the data files. Only a restart will fix that.

Yeah, I get that. But I felt I had to write it the way I did in order to
get the right sort of engagement from readers.

It doesn't seem to me like a restart should be necessary (hence this
thread), but if you say it is, then I won't argue with you. The other
poster on this thread has suggested F5 and/or shift-F5. I will try those
the next time the problem presents (which is hopefully never...).

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