Removing an app without losing data

[Wade Smart]

06062006 0740 gmt-6

After removing Thunderbird and then reinstalling it, nothing has 
changed. It will wont check email and has trouble showing the correct 
number of emails in a folder. What can I do?

wade

Wade Smart wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>If I uninstall Thunderbird, will I loose the ./mozilla-thunderbird 
>>>directory or will that be left alone?
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Uninstalling an app won't touch user preferences and settings in those dot
>>files - so no, ~/.mozilla-thunderbird won't disappear
>>
>>However, uninstalling normally *will* leave your system-wide config in
>>place. To clean that out you use the --purge option:
>>
>>sudo apt-get remove --purge <nameofpackage>
>>
>>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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