A happy "downgrade" from v11.4.1 back to v9.5.1

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Hello,

I'd like to know if other TB! users have been experiencing some or all of
the issues I mentioned in a post earlier today on the Ritlabs site user
forum (copied into this message, below). And for others who have been using
this client for a long time, as I have, I wonder how you're feeling about
recent changes?

I will admit that I'm happily old school when it comes to written
communications. I still love actual letters, and I'm also still quite happy
with plain text email. It's clean, uncomplicated, and if we can still read
and write without all that extra "multi-media" noise, all the better, as far
as I'm concerned. All that other noise is what websites are for, after all.

So then, here's what I posted at that other place before I decided to see i=
f=20
this list remained extant...

After submitting several "tickets" for support regarding issues I've been
having with my recent "upgrade" to v11.4.1, with no satisfaction as of yet,
I've gone back to using my older v9.5.1, and I'm now much happier. On
several levels...

First, the obvious bugs I've been experiencing with this new version:

1) large blocks (up to paragraphs) of text I'm typing into a draft suddenly
disappearing without noticing anything I've "done wrong", and having to
"undo edits" in order to retrieve.

2) Opening folders to see that the currently selected--or newly received,
and just selected--message is "blank" in the preview pane (must click on
some other message, then come back and click on first intended message to
hopefully finally see it).

3) Trying to open messages (new or old) and either immediately or after a
few seconds receiving a blank page save for the "Aw, snap!" Access violation
page, with a "reload" button that only sometimes works.

4) TB! not responding to disabling "start with Windows startup" option in
"preferences". Still starts right up at Windows startups -- even after
several restarts.

5) And finally, while I've so far skipped over v10.x, so I can't comment on
it, I do find the new "graphic interface -- especially the preview pane and
"open message" window presentation to be quite ugly (and perhaps all this
"fancy" presentation is contributing to some of the issues mentioned
above?).

I've been using TB! since the earliest versions of v1.x (late '90s), and
this "new look" is really bothering me. One thing I've always loved about
TB! was the option to have a truly "plain text" client that worked reliably,
and presented the written word clearly and without hassle.

Of course, I had my issues when it transitioned into handling HTML, but with
the available options, managed to get around that well enough, and it didn't
disturb my usual preferences once set up the way I liked it (still primarily
working with plain text for both writing and reading).

Back to v9.5.1...

No glitches as mentioned above. Back to plain text presentation of headers
and messages (much less ugly). Proper response to "preferences" back to
normal. And, checking for new messages in all or in particular accounts is
*much* faster.

Yes, I paid for the "upgrade" (as I have regularly for more than 2.5
decades), but at this point, I'm happier going back to a previous version.

--=20
Melissa

TB v9.5.1



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