Hello

According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855900#c69 Wait Thunderbird 128.2.1 and see Thunderbird release notes https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases

Below for information purposes currently 131.0b3 bêta

128.2.1esr arrived today. Events in the past and All events are back as search options..... And now search is completely broken. It doesn't find anything and the event list remains empty.

Happens on both my Windows 11 systems. On a Linux Mint system I'm still on 115 and there it works as a breeze.

My Calendar is on a local Nextcloud CALDAV server. Together with [[After update to Thunderbird version 128:Quick filter freezes the GUI while doing the filtering]] TB currently is a pain. I really regret upgrading from 115.

Yes, I see the same with 128.2.1esr. They really tested it good didn't they. But I learned my lesson and tested it in a VM this time. Fool me once....

128.2.1esr arrived today. Events in the past and All events are back as search options..... And now search is completely broken. It doesn't find anything and the event list remains empty.

Does https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1919677 describe your issue?

Even beta 131.0b5 has the broken search. Seems nothing had been fixed :(

YeOldNerd said

Does https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1919677 describe your issue?

Looks like it, yes. But nobody there mentions CALDAV. My calendar is CALDAV on a Nextcloud server. Works fine with 115.x

I just noticed that I have the update which includes "All Events." I have Thunderbird version 128.2.3esr. This worked for me just now when I needed to search for something more than 12 months in the future. However, there is no option to limit it to "Future Events." Please restore "All Future Events" as a search option. I should not have to dig through all of the similar events in the past when I'm wanting to look at only future events. Thank you.

SUMMARY: Attempts to search past events or all events with keyword fails every time. Searching from current day and forward with keyword works every time.

TESTING DETAILS:

I use Thunderbird 128.2.3esr. Calendar data is stored on the same PC (not networked or shared), filesize of calendar-data\local.sqlite is 5140kb.

Selecting "Find Events" > "Events in the Past" with keyword blank displays a scrollable list of events starting 2002. Typing keywords that I am 100% sure are in Event Titles never displays those events. Even though I did not see hard drive activity, I still waited 30 mins in case my machine or search engine code was slow, but it didn't help. Exited search. Using "All Events" produced identical results.

Selecting "Find Events" that had "Events in the Past" and previous keyword still populated displayed no list. Exited search.

Selecting "Find Events" and switching to "Events in this Calendar Month" with keyword blank displays a scrollable list of events starting September 2024. Typing keywords that I am 100% sure are in Event Titles for the month displayed those events. Exited search. Using 7, 14, 31 days, and Events in the next 6 months produced identical results.

This is exactly the sort of thing that makes one wonder why -- apart from the lack of decent alternatives -- one carries on using a program whose developers see fit to hobble their program in such a way. Is there no mechanism for asking users whether they need functionality? Is there no grown-up who checks plans before they go ahead?

So someone went to the Product Manager and said. 'I've had a great idea! Why don't we remove the ability to search past events so you can't check when your last optician's appointment was or see what date you last visited a client?' And the PM said, 'Yes, that's a good idea. No-one does those things. Go ahead.'

Unbelievable!

Or does the team run without any procedures at all? I've just wasted an hour of prime productivity time over this issue. That's a real cost. Multiply it by all the people who have been similarly stymied, the time spent by the guy who wrote an extension to compensate for the TB team's mistake, the people who spent hours evaluating and switching to other clients... Sure, TB is free, but does that mean they owe no-one any accountability?

Another update came in today, 128.3.0esr (64-bit). And it did not fix this :(

128.3.2 finally fixed this for me.

128.3.2 finally fixed this for me.

Thanks for hanging in there. Fixed in 128.3.2 means this was fixed by Bug 1919830 - Reinstate "All future events"

For those for home this is was not yet fixed, is it better with 128.3.3?

For anyone still following this thread, after staying with 115.x until now, version 128.4.0esr solves the problem. All Events works as it did in 115.x. Marked as Solved.