thunderbird can't find my mail

[Duncan Anderson]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:

> In order to install a danish dictionary into thunderbird I had to 
> start tb using sudo mozilla-thunderbird (on fedora I would have run it 
> as root - not sure how much this is the same thing) and install the 
> dictionary. That seemed to go fine - although I thought it was a bit 
> odd that tb had all my emails and everything visible when run as sudo, 
> maybe I don't quite understand sudo...
>
> But, now when I start tb it thinks it's a new start and wants me to 
> create a new account etc. The folders are still in home and the 
> permissions don't seem to be changed - so I'm stumped. I've backed up 
> my mail folder so fire away with some suggestions of what the problem 
> could be...
>
> Until fixed I'll use gmail (thanks google!).
>
> cheers, Duncan

Hi Duncan

There are a couple of things to check:

If there is a "lock" file in your  ~/.thunderbird/*.default directory, 
then delete it.
Check that all the files in the directory are owned by you.

cheers
Duncan

	
	
		
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