Real Cause of the Missing Folder Pane in Thunderbird for Linux and Its Working Fix and Solution

[Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo]

Dear Linux Users Worldwide,

The real cause of the missing folder pane/folder pane not showing up in
Thunderbird email clients for Linux operating systems is extensive and
widespread corruption of the *.msf mail summary files or mail index files.
If your *.msf mail summary files or mail index files are badly corrupted,
the traditional usual recommended and oft-quoted solution of deleting the
folderTree.json and session.json files in your mail profile(s) and later
rebuilding them will not work, for sure. Even if you try this solution for
1 trillion times, it will still not work. This is because the files which
are actually corrupted are NOT the folderTree.json and session.json files.
The real files which are corrupted are your .msf mail summary files!!!

I have been repeatedly and stubbornly trying the traditional usual
recommended and oft-quoted solution of deleting the folderTree.json and
session.json files and later rebuilding them, for a few years, but it did
not work out for me at all. Now, today, 15 November 2016 Tuesday, Singapore
Time, I have actually solved the problem of the missing folder pane/folder
pane not showing up in Thunderbird email clients for Linux, which has
plagued me for a few years.

Please refer to the following link/URL for my solution to the problem:

http://forums.edmw.xyz/index.php?threads/is-there-a-cure-for-stupidity-retardedness-imbecility-zero-iq-negative-iq.39679

An archive (ZIP file 19.7 MB) of the above forum thread is available at the
following Google Drive Cloud link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B96mKCooAF0naXJNNnpYUERncUk/view?usp=sharing

The original reference resource is here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders

Concisely, the solution towards fixing the problem is to:

1) Exit or close Thunderbird
2) Go to your email profile, e.g. /home/user/.thunderbird/<profile-name>
3) Rename the *.msf files to *.msf.bak
4) Start Thunderbird
5) Create a new folder, e.g. "Backup 15 Nov 2016"
6) Move all your email messages from the INBOX folder to "Backup 15 Nov
2016"
7) Check and ensure that all your email messages from INBOX are actually in
your new folder
8) Exit and restart Thunderbird again
9) You should be able to start receiving email messages into your Inbox all
over again

For a few years, Thunderbird for Linux had fixed me. Now, I have fixed
Thunderbird for Linux.

Thank you very much for reading.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) @ Time Traveller
Former old abandoned name: Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
SINGAPORE CITIZEN
Mobile Phone #1: +65-8692-1024 (M1 Mobile Postpaid)
Mobile Phone #2: +65-8712-7323 (Singtel Mobile Prepaid)
15th November 2016 Tuesday 5:03 PM Singapore Time

*I am an entry level Information Technology Specialist/Systems
Engineer/Linux Server Administrator/Helpdesk Support/Computer Technician
available for hire anywhere in the world!!! Please contact me for my
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