Thunderbird search option is not working [SOLVED]

[Jatin K]

On 12/24/2009 08:15 AM, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 12/23/2009 11:37 AM, Jatin K wrote:
>    
>> Dear all
>>
>> I'm using thunderbird 3.0-4 on my Fedora 12 64bit .. all works fine but
>> not search ... whenever I try to search mail for particular item, every
>> time it founds nothing. thus I'm unable to search anything in thunderbird
>>
>> can any one tell me the solution for this ....
>>
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>>      
>
>    Assuming GLODA is off (which is a good thing) ... you have to click
> the magnifying glass and choose Subject or From (or whatever) .. it
> sometimes starts up on global even if its off - (very stubborn that gloda).
>
>    See if that helps.
>
>    Also confirm that advanced search (control-shift-f or
> edit->find->search_messages) works ok.
>
>
>    

I opened my Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/(random).default 
folder and deleted the file global-messages-db.sqlite, and then 
restarted Thunderbird. I waited a few minutes for the indexing to 
complete. To my surprise, search worked perfectly. I am glad the feature 
is now working.

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