Removing an app without losing data

[Wade Smart]

06052006 1111 GMT-6

So I uninstalled Thunderbird and then reinstalled it. As soon as I 
turned it on my memory shot up. Im still getting the problem of, it wont 
check emails unless I hit the button, it wont filter the emails through 
the filter is still present, it says its downloading 100 emails when its 
downloading 2, and then shows 98 in my inbox. This totally sucks.

I did the remove -- purge thing but that doesnt seem to have helped.

wade

Peter Garrett wrote:

>On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:42:15 -0500
>Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
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>>If I uninstall Thunderbird, will I loose the ./mozilla-thunderbird 
>>directory or will that be left alone?
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>Uninstalling an app won't touch user preferences and settings in those dot
>files - so no, ~/.mozilla-thunderbird won't disappear
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>However, uninstalling normally *will* leave your system-wide config in
>place. To clean that out you use the --purge option:
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>sudo apt-get remove --purge <nameofpackage>
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>If you are really paranoid you can always back up your user config to
>something like ~/.mozilla-thunderbird.myconfig , but I assure you the
>uninstall process won't touch user settings.
>
>Peter
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