Ask EU: thunderbird

As usual, I processed my mail in Mailwasher and MW duly then opened TB. I clicked on "get mail". I then got an error message - I don?t remember the error but it said I might need to close TB and delete INBOX.msf. I searched for same and found four within TB profiles. I deleted the one for gmail, which is an account I rarely use, on the grounds that if it turned out to be inadvisable after all, no harm might be done. Huh!

Now TB is totally jammed up. At first, clicking on my inbox produced a message about building the inbox umbrella (possibly history?). Now it just produces a lot of noise from my computer. The inbox contents don?t appear, nor do the contents of one of my local folders which has some unread mail in it. I can?t download any fresh mail. I can hardly type - characters appear at about one per second. I am typing this in Word and hope to copy and paste into my newsgroup post.

Any ideas what I can do?

Off to bed now in a sulk, but would be very grateful to get up to some practical suggestions ?

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Jane
The potter in the purple socks
email jane at cloth and clay dot co dot uk

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