Lucid: Thunderbird crashes

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/06/2010 02:17 AM, 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
>
>
>
> -- 
> "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
>                                                                      Galileo Galilei
>
>    
     I do all this too. I have many versions of Ubuntu on my computer. 
For 10.04 and the new Thunderbird and using imap, I renaimed the old 
control file and Thunderbird made a new one based in part on the imap 
layout. If your using pop it might not work.

73 Karl


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