Thunderbird 0.9 for Ubuntu?

[Keith Irwin]

zerohalo wrote:
> Thanks. I tried that and thunderbird loads, but it doesn't seem to find
> any of my current settings (under ~/.thunderbird) which point to my
> current profile. It starts me up blank. Did it do the same for you? I
> know I could do thunderbird -P to fire up the profile manager, but it
> seems that it should be detecting my current settings? Or, is having
> two versions of thunderbird installed (I still have the 8.2 Ubuntu
> release installed) a problem? Doesn't seem like it should be as I
> didn't "install" 0.9 but just copied it to opt and made a link.

If you previously used the warty thunderbird client, it places its stuff in:

	.mozilla-thunderbird

in your home directory, so you have to move that to

	.thunderbird

or make a symlink.  Once you so one of these things, you'll have all 
your previous settings back again.

Keith

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