Lucid: Thunderbird crashes

[Basil Chupin]

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



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