{"id":419,"date":"2015-06-22T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/?p=419"},"modified":"2015-06-27T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T21:28:51","slug":"switch-to-log-in-with-ms-account-on-windows-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icetips.com\/blog_wp\/2015\/06\/22\/switch-to-log-in-with-ms-account-on-windows-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch to log in with MS account on Windows 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some things are just not meant to be. Switching between your local account and your MS account on Windows 8.1 should be one of them \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Before Sue's graduation last Saturday, she asked me to download photos from her phone and dump them into Dropbox. \u00a0We use the free Dropbox account and use it a lot. \u00a0But there wasn't enough room so I checked my Microsoft OneDrive and had plenty of space there. \u00a0For whatever reason, the OneDrive executable will not run on my Windows 8.1 machine. \u00a0It crashes File Explorer.exe and pops up a message saying so and dies. \u00a0However, the Tile app worked and loaded. \u00a0But it requires you to log in to your computer using your Microsoft account. \u00a0So it politely offered to do so and I - stupidly - followed.<\/p>\n

I got the photos uploaded, no problems. \u00a0But then I noticed I had a problem in Thunderbird which I use to read my email and newsgroups. \u00a0Every time it tried to connect to the Inbox on my Hostgator IMAP email account it would pop up this message:<\/p>\n

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\"Server Hostgator has disconnected. \u00a0The server may have gone down or there may be a network problem.\"<\/p>\n

So for a while I thought there was some problem with the email server, but this persisted. \u00a0I sometimes have a problem with my router, so it got rebooted several times - didn't help at all. \u00a0I had no problem accessing the account using Microsoft Outlook so I knew this wasn't a problem on the server, this was something in Thunderbird. \u00a0Lot of research and no real results.<\/p>\n

After snooping around in the Thunderbird profile folder I realized that when I switched the accounts from my local account to the MS account, Thunderbird created all new profile, copying the existing data into new folders\u00a0with\u00a0a \"-1\" attached to them. \u00a0So I switched back to the local account and thought OK, this was easy. \u00a0Any guesses on how that worked? \u00a0You're right, it didn't help at all! \u00a0Message was still there.<\/p>\n

So I decided to take drastic measures and completely uninstalled Thunderbird. \u00a0Cleaned out everything, renamed the profile folder, cleaned out the Program Files folder and the registry. \u00a0Installed the latest version and it happily found the server, loaded everything nice and neat. \u00a0Only thing now was to copy over the filters and I was good to go. \u00a0Or so I thought. \u00a0Copied the\u00a0msgFilterRules.dat file into the instance sub folder under ImapMail and life was good. \u00a0NO, the darn message was back and it stopped working!<\/p>\n

Now I knew this had something to do with the filters, so I removed them, restarted Thunderbird and it was happy as a clam. \u00a0No ifs about it! \u00a0The filters file is a text file, but not easily digested and I looked and looked for a rouge filter that was referencing folders that weren't there or some such problem. \u00a0Didn't see any, so I painstakingly entered every single one of the filters back in. \u00a0Doing so I found two\u00a0filters that had an invalid path to copy to.<\/p>\n

This message is very misleading as it has nothing to do with the server being down. \u00a0What happens is that a filter tries to copy an email to an invalid folder location and it fails.<\/p>\n

Thunderbird wasn't the only program that tied itself into a knot. \u00a0Snagit locked up every time I tried to use it too after I switched to the MS account. \u00a0Once I switched back to my local account it was back to its old happy self, but it had lost the hotkey settings.<\/p>\n

Bottom line is: \u00a0IF you need to switch accounts, make SURE that you can recover! \u00a0I was lucky since this is an IMAP account, all the emails are on the server, so it was relatively easy for me to just clean out the program and start over.<\/p>\n

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