Birthdays/special dates in thundebird calendar

I am on linux mint 22, thunderbird 140.4. From Abhi, Nev, George, Rosika, Paul, I am very technologically challenged. I would say you would need to get down to the crayola level for me, and finger paint would not insult me. My son, is a Texas A&M Aggie, and he says, “I am one level below even that. Dad, you smear your monkey poo on the wall!” So if you could put up with me, I would be ever so grateful.

I have also never been to India. It is on my to do list. My website is down, and as soon as i get it up, you can see how far around the world i have been, but not yet to India!

Recently, a computer guru got ahold of my computer, and piecemealing it back together has been a challenge. Two weeks, i could go to thunderbird, calendar and because i had filled in the special dates for birthdays, a birthday and age would show up on 11.02 with their age and name. In the future, can i make copies and paste to show you what i am seeing? The special date is filled out and saved, but it is not showing up on the calendar. I would prefer to stick with thunderbird app. On my crayola level, at best, what do you suggest i do? I have more such ideas, but i really like to call folks and wish them a Happy Birthday, and i miss this feature. A lady friend of ours, turned 75 Sat, but she did not show up in my daily calendar. Thank you….b³

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You can run the app on line

Only joking.

Enjoy using linux mint and if you need help or guidance we are here. No such thing as a silly question we all enjoy learning

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Hi @Bearzilla, welcome to the forum.

My best guess is that you have an add-on installed for showing birthdates in the calendar and that this add-on was disabled by a Thunderbird update.

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Hi @Bearzilla ,
Yes you can . There are two techniques

  • you can make a screenshot, save the image on your computer, then upload it to the forum editor using the 7th button on the top line of the editor

  • you can copy/paste text into what is called a ‘code block’ in the forum editor.
    The codd block protects the text from being interpreted by the editor, so it displays what you copy in verbatim.
    To do a code block , type on a new line
    ```
    , then do a new line, then copy/paste your text into the editor, then do another newline with
    ```
    Those ‘`’ marks are a backtick character.

Have a practice… we will not mind a few mistakes

Regards
Neville

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