Lucid: Thunderbird crashes

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/05/10 15:34, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 05/06/2010 12:08 PM, maliron wrote:
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>> Basil Chupin-2 wrote:
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>>> On 06/05/10 11:05, maliron wrote:
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>>>> Karl Larsen-2 wrote:
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>>>>> On 05/05/2010 12:17 AM, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
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>>> I have been using the same TB profile for several years+ in each of the
>>> versions of Linux distros I have been trying/using; all I do is to copy
>>> both ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird over to either an external drive or
>>> (nowadays) to a flash drive and then copy both into the new
>>> installation. Meaning, that doing so is not the reason for TB suddenly
>>> disappearing.
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> Try renaming it .mozilla-thunderbird instead. Delete (or rename)
> .thunderbird first (taking care not to lose your data).
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>> That is exactly what I have done all these years too, but this TB they made
>> a lot of changes and since you are experiencing a similar problem, it could
>> be related to config. I have to agree though, I can't really see a config
>> problem causing a random crash. I can tell this is going to get annoying
>> though.
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> Regards - Goh Lip
>    

Been there done that :-) . In any case, Ubuntu or TB automatically 
generates what appears to be a symlink in the form of (quoted exactly as 
it looks, except for the quotation marks) "~.mozilla-thunderbird" which 
points to .thunderbird.

I made this statement to someone else not that long ago and to prove 
what I stated I deliberately deleted "~.mozilla-thunderbird" and found 
that it was recreated the next time I started TB.

BC


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