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

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/05/12 05:58, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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)

My god, not only is he a Voodoo Master but a psychic as well! :-D

Yes, I did mean /.mozilla etc.

BC