tl;dr

[Daniel Villarreal]

Eugene, Thank you for the response. To be fair, my relative did the update,
and so it's possible that this individual may have stopped the update before
it completed. I have tried on different computers to update Thunderbird from
the program itself but under Help, "Check for Updates" is greyed out. I'll
keep at it.

Daniel
P.S. I used to play some guitar, but nowadays enjoy listening music as I
drive through Canadian farmland to work.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Eugene Cormier
<eugene.cormier at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 10-06-14 11:33 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> > Is anyone else having issues with Thunderbird upgrading to 3x series ?
> > I had set up Ubuntu 9.10 for a family member and Thunderbird was going
> > great, then an upgrade messed it all up. I tried to transfer over the
> > email directory over to a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 Thunderbird setup (after
> > backing up the original fresh install files), and no go. This type of
> > restore works when using the same version, at least in the Thunderbird
> > 2x series.
> Hi Daniel, I had no problems whatsoever when I upgraded (I think I
> recall a message from thunderbird the first time I ran it saying that it
> was going to "update" the mailbox format or something along those lines.
>
> anyways I would say that it sounds like you're not putting the folder in
> the right place....here's what I would do.
>
> 1) backup all mozilla folders, and then remove them from your home folder
> 2) run thunderbird and see where it creates a folder (it is .thunderbird
> on my system)
> 3) close thunderbird and delete the .thunderbird folder it created and
> replace with your backed up thunderbird folder
> 4) run thunderbird again and it should work ..... the warning is to not
> merge the folders, you need to delete first and then copy your backup
>
> hope this helps
>
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