Thanks for the ideas<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>If there is a "lock" file in your ~/.thunderbird/*.default directory,<br>then delete it.</blockquote>
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<div>Is that a file called "lock" or something else, I'll look when I get home</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Check that all the files in the directory are owned by you.</blockquote>
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<div>Is there a recursive way to do that? There are a lot of files and directories in there...</div>
<p>Duncan</p>
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