On 4/28/2020 11:13 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Yes, that is exactly the problem, I was getting at. Does Thunderbird
have a new news file format available? My assumption was that
Thunderbird only does 1 file/message? What's the option to convert?

It's not a new News file format, it's a different format.

New to me. LOL ;-)

You set the format in the News account: Tools - Account settings -
your news account in the left pane - 'Server Settings' page -
Message Storage - Message Store Type:. This field *should* be set to
'File per folder (mbox)'. Yours is probably set to 'File per message
(maildir)'.

Actually it does show the "file per folder (mbox)" but it's completely
grey-out, unchangeable. I assume that that's just it's preferred method
of accessing News, but it's being forced to use the old format anyways.

For your account - i.e. an *existing* account - you probably cannot
change this setting, i.e. you can only set it when you create the
account. Hence my comment about exporting and (re-)importing. If you
cannot change the setting, you will have to export all the articles from
your current account and then re-import all articles into a new account
with 'Message Store Type: File per folder (mbox)'.

Actually, I'm ready to completely blow out all of the files in the news
folder, and redownload from scratch, just so long as my newsgroups list
remains untouched. I obviously have backups of it, so it's not going to
be harmful to me.

If ImportExportTools can not solve your problem, you'll probably have
to search the Thunderbird support site(s)/forum(s) or/and post there.

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https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/?src=userprofile

Thanks, but it looks like this version only works up to Thunderbird
version 60, and I'm on version 68.x. No problem, this is just News, I'll
just wipe it out and redownload.

Yousuf Khan