[ubuntu-za] CANNOT OPEN THUNDERBIRD?

[Raymond Barbour]

Hi Vince,
I had one thought. Was Thunderbird running when you backed up your home
folder? It might be that Thunderbird has a lock file to say it is
running which might have been copied. Try finding the lock file and
deleting it (I guess it should be in the .mozilla folder but I don't use
Thunderbird) or maybe make sure everything is shutdown first before
backing up, maybe log out and ctrl-alt-2 to a terminal and copy the
files from there.
Raymond

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 10:51 +0200, vincent wrote: 

> I'm having a problem with Thunderbird in that I backed up my home
> directory on the desktop and then restored it on my netbook. All works
> fine and all files were restored.
> However I keep getting a message advising me that Thunderbird is already
> open & needs to be closed.
> On the desktop Thunderbird works fine.
> What have I done wrong & how can I fix it without a re-install?
> 
> Vince
> 
> 


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