Tricia has been naughty again this time on an update from 19.2 She has deleted all my Thunderbird accounts and the Event entries so I have to enter them again as if it was a new Thunderbird installation.

Has she upset anyone else this way?

Save yourself heartache in the future by backing up your Mozilla-Firefox and Thunderbird profiles somewhere safe (DVD, thumbdrive, etc.). You can find those profiles in /home/<your username>/.mozilla/firefox and /home/<your username>/.thunderbird.

Sorry that this happened to you. If I lost my T-bird profile, I'd be sunk for sure.

Yes thanks.

It happened again when I put them in again.

However I think I made a mistake intramfs came up again and I sorted that out rebooted and again a new thunderbird.

I have on the machine a ssd drive with dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.3 (upgraded from 19.2) I only get the intramfs problem on the Linux so I suspect a faulty bit at the Thunderbird code.

I maybe have misjudged the upgrade as I have had so many problems with it on other machines and those with a new installation as well.

I will mark this as solved now.

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This should not have happened.
How exactly did you update, and where were your accounts stored, and where were they after the update?
Are you saying the accounts were actually deleted, or thunderbird could not see them? Did TB give some sort of message, maybe something like "This new version of TB cannot read your old account contents"?

No the problem was not 19.3 it was initfs I think I have a problem with the SSD

I have put the emails back and it is Ok until the inits comes back when I start again I will see if I can buy a new SSD my HDD on the same desktop never has a problem.

I also find Windows closes down after a while as it must be overheating but never a problem with mint so just shows how hot it gets with windows.

What's initfs? How do you know it is to blame?
Or maybe your SSD is broken? How old is it?

I meant initramfs you get it when you have a disk fault on boot up.

About a year.

No, one always has an initramfs on a common Linux installation.

You're saying your system booted to the initramfs.
You need to show us something to work with, error messages, the logs, etc.

not old imo, so it's not likely to be broken.

I know how to solve it anyway. The SSD disk now is unusable now.