Lucid: Thunderbird crashes

[Goh Lip]

On 05/06/2010 04:17 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 06/05/10 16:37, Goh Lip wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> As I stated, "been there, done that".
>
> As you would know, if you copy over '.thunderbird' from your backup or
> your previous installation and rename it to '.mozilla-thunderbird',
> Ubuntu or TB, don't know which nor do I care, will automatically rename
> it back to '.thunderbird' and also create what appears to be a symlink
> '~.mozilla-thunderbird' which points at '.thunderbird'. (Also, if you
> delete '.thunderbird' doing so will also automatically delete
> '~.mozilla-thunderbird'.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> BC

Yes, I know too. My hardy has the file copied over (actually syslinked)
as .thunderbird, but my lucid has the same file syslinked over as 
.mozilla-thunderbird. Different versions of thunderbird apparently 
worked differently. Both thunderbirds worked in lucid and hardy using 
the same files. Wish you good luck but I actually wished you tried harder.

Repeat....(for lucid)
clean slate: nothing (no .mozilla-thunderbird, no .thunderbird) at ~/.
copy over your files, rename it .mozilla-thunderbird
start thunderbird...your system will create .thunderbird.

If you have "been there, done that", well okay......
I'll keep quiet.    :)

Regards - Goh Lip

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