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When I try to send a scanned image by email, I have this message: "Interface library for Mozilla Thunderbird E-mail client has not been found. You may have to reinstall your emai client. I have downloaded and reinstalled Thunderbird twice. I recently moved from 60.0? 32 bit to 68.3.1 64 bit. Everything has been working fine. The scanner/printer is a Samsung SCX-4216F using SmarThru 3 interface which has been working fine.

When I try to send a scanned image by email, I have this message: "Interface library for Mozilla Thunderbird E-mail client has not been found. You may have to reinstall your emai client. I have downloaded and reinstalled Thunderbird twice. I recently moved from 60.0? 32 bit to 68.3.1 64 bit. Everything has been working fine. The scanner/printer is a Samsung SCX-4216F using SmarThru 3 interface which has been working fine.

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Simply uninstall Thunderbird do not remove data if it is offered as an option. When Thunderbird is reinstalled your profile should remain intact.

This is the second time this week I have heard of someone using mozbackup. it is 8 years and many many versions of Thunderbird and a number of windows since that product was updated. You use it as your own risk, as per the product author, and every year the risk gets greater.

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If the scanner software is 32-bit, sending a file through TB won't work unless TB is 32-bit. W7 users may also have to install a Visual Studio library. But if it worked before with TB 32-bit, I suspect the problem is 64-bit TB. Uninstall 64-bit and install 68.3.1 32-bit, set TB as the default during setup, then restart the computer. There's no significant performance gain with 64-bit TB.

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I am using the Thunderbird uninstaller. Do I delete all the files after it has uninstalled? I did a MozBackup before I started.

Thanks for your help.

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I think I answered my own question. If I delete all the files, fresh install of 32 bit and then restore my backup, that will restore my profile and all my data. Am I correct?

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Simply uninstall Thunderbird do not remove data if it is offered as an option. When Thunderbird is reinstalled your profile should remain intact.

This is the second time this week I have heard of someone using mozbackup. it is 8 years and many many versions of Thunderbird and a number of windows since that product was updated. You use it as your own risk, as per the product author, and every year the risk gets greater.

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Thanks for the heads up Matt.

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Problem solved, thanks Matt and sfhowes.