Xubuntu 12.04 - What happened to .mozilla and .thunderbird?

[Ric Moore]

On 05/05/2012 03:28 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 05/05/12 02:16, Albert Wagner wrote:
>> The files .mozilla and .thunderbird are not installed in home
>> directory anymore. I used those files. Reinstalling did nothing about
>> them. Deleting and than installing Firefox did put .mozilla in home.
>> However, deleting and installing Thunderbird did NOT put .thunderbird
>> in home. I need .thunderbird, but it is nowhere on my system. What's
>> happened?
>
> Both Firefox and Thunderbird *always* install the hidden directories
> ./mozilla and ./thunderbird in the /home directory of the user.
>
> The ones I am now using started their life way back some 9 years or so
> ago (under XP Pro) and which I backup every night.
>
> If you cannot see the ./thunderbird one then you are looking in the
> wrong place (for whatever reason). Or you are using some File Manager
> where you don't have hidden files selected to be displayed - and you saw
> the ./mozilla directory by some mysterious means (probably as the result
> of waving a chicken foot over the screen [TM Ric] :-) ).
>
> (You want to use something really useful then install, and use mc
> (Midnight Commander). Anything else is inferior.)

You mean ~/.thunderbird? :) Ric

(My Computer Voodoo chicken foot told me that is what you meant)


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