Lucid: Thunderbird crashes

[Goh Lip]

On 05/06/2010 01:57 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

>>>> 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.
>>>>
>> Try renaming it .mozilla-thunderbird instead. Delete (or rename)
>> .thunderbird first (taking care not to lose your data).
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 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.
>

What I said was start with a clean slate, no other syslinks, then copy 
your file and *you* rename it .mozilla-thunderbird.
What you did was copy your .thunderbird file and the *system* create 
.mozilla-thunderbird.

It worked for me.

Regards - Goh Lip