Comments on: New Lightning versions (almost) available for all Thunderbird versions

By: Philipp Kewisch

Philipp Kewisch — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:59:53 +0000

Re (1): I think this will be fixed with 1.9.1, please see our latest blog post.

Re (2): Updates should always be sent afaik. Do you get any error console messages in other cases?

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:43:15 +0000

Thunderbird 17.0.2, Lightning 1.9 on Windows XP (I’m pretty sure – but is there a way to confirm the version installed & running?)

Two questions / issues:
1) when deleting an invitee from an established calendar event – I cannot save the new invitee list (I click OK & nothing happens, but I can exit out of the invitee list window with the x).
Is this a known issue? Is anyone else observing the same behavior?

2) Is there a way to force Lightning to send out calendar event email when updating an event?
Usually, after updating an event, Lightning will not ask to send an updated email to the recipients, nor does an update get sent. I found I can force it to email by changing the start time of the meeting to another time & then back, but would like to know if there is another way to accomplish this.

By: Philipp Kewisch

Philipp Kewisch — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:48:21 +0000

There is a known issue in Lightning, this might be fixed in the next version.

By: JackF

JackF — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:38:21 +0000

I have Thunderbird 17, Lightning 1.9 and Provider for Google Calendar 0.18 – calendar and calendar invites work fine, except when I receive an updated/revised invite: when I accept that I get a ‘MODIFICATION_FAILED’ error. I am sure I must be doing something simple wrong. Please help!

By: Philipp Kewisch

Philipp Kewisch — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:58:45 +0000

I’m not sure what you are referring to with 18 (do you mean Lightning 1.8 or the Provider for Google Calendar 0.18 ?), but please try updating the provider.

By: Khalil Ahmed

Khalil Ahmed — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:20:01 +0000

I upgraded the Thunderbird to version 17 and the corresponding Lightening 19 that was automatically installed by the program. The result is that my calendar is no longer synchronizing with my Google calendar. I have tried to reinstall the Lightening a couple of times and have tried to link the Lightening calendar with Google calendar but it says that the Google calendar is already linked to the Lightening calendar. I am not sure what to do so as to get all my calendar entries back (the previous version (18) worked really well!
Please advise. Thanks.

By: Philipp Kewisch

Philipp Kewisch — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:46:52 +0000

Lightning has one build per version of Thunderbird. Please download the corresponding version from addons.mozilla.org.

By: jaunty

jaunty — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:56:13 +0000

Hi
some history…….I thought Lightning was the bees knees..the best…..the only pc based calendar that could sync with google cal..then I upgraded Thunderbird to 15. Lightning stopped working and so did Thunderbird..I thought I had lost all my emails…the forums weren’t much help implying that all my email data was corrupt.. I had no backup so I was on my own. A long story but in the end, I managed to restore an older version of Thunderbird. (Lightening was uninstalled).
much later I installed T’Bird 16.0.1 but there seems to be no compatible version of Lightning?
If Lightning can’t reliably keep in step with T’bird I will reluctantly have to give up on it. Have you any encouraging words???

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:25:19 +0000

I just received the update to Tbird 16.0.1 and now my Lightning 1.8 displays all blanked out tabs and totally blank calendars. Help!

By: c0nd3mn3d

c0nd3mn3d — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:20:51 +0000

Wiss, why do you name the make of Outlook when you list it and not the make of Thunderbird… this is one not-so-small reason I sometimes go to lengths to avoid products by the maker of the likes of Outlook: everyone is brainwashed and they don’t even know it !!!