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manziman2018
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Good morning, I had asked a question early on Saturday, but was unavailable the rest of the weekend so just now responding to associate Corey Bryan's answer. I had gotten a message that I am using an unsupported version and they recommend downloading the latest stable version.

He said it appears that I'm on the "Release" channel and most likely want to be on the ESR channel. I also mentioned that I am a cave-man when it comes to anything computer and am very skittish about making any changes as I don't how to straighten out any errors that might occur.

He asked me where I installed Thunderbird from and the answer is that I don't know. It was an IT guy that did it many years ago.

So I guess my questions are, if I've been using this version for years, do I need to or should I update it? If so, if I click on the latest stable version of Thunderbird, will that change anything on my computer, aside from getting the newer version of T-Bird? And will my e-mails in Thunderbird look any different?

Thanks very much for the help. Tony

Good morning, I had asked a question early on Saturday, but was unavailable the rest of the weekend so just now responding to associate Corey Bryan's answer. I had gotten a message that I am using an unsupported version and they recommend downloading the latest stable version. He said it appears that I'm on the "Release" channel and most likely want to be on the ESR channel. I also mentioned that I am a cave-man when it comes to anything computer and am very skittish about making any changes as I don't how to straighten out any errors that might occur. He asked me where I installed Thunderbird from and the answer is that I don't know. It was an IT guy that did it many years ago. So I guess my questions are, if I've been using this version for years, do I need to or should I update it? If so, if I click on the latest stable version of Thunderbird, will that change anything on my computer, aside from getting the newer version of T-Bird? And will my e-mails in Thunderbird look any different? Thanks very much for the help. Tony

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Thank you SOOOO much for the replies on 1:07 and 1:09. Very helpful!

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timmeynature33
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I have now tried extensively to find any possible other process that might be updating Thunderbird. I could not find any. However, right before Thunderbird updates itself, I can find a crash log in the console (but I do not understand its content).

@Wayne Mery and @Mapenzi : do you have any idea how I could fix this problem which looks like coming directly from Thunderbird?

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Wayne Mery
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We'd have to see the error you mention.

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timmeynature33
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Ok, I tried some more around and might have found a stable solution. I completely deleted the folder with all Thunderbird provile information (the folder user/Library/Thunderbird) before reinstallation. So far it has not upgraded in 2 days.

(I now have other issues, like freezing upon opening and not being able to open attached files, but for that I might find a solution somewhere else).

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