Lucid: Thunderbird crashes

[Basil Chupin]

On 06/05/10 19:12, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 05/06/2010 04:17 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>      
> Yes, I know too. My hardy has the file copied over (actually syslinked)
> as .thunderbird, but my lucid has the same file syslinked over as
> .mozilla-thunderbird. Different versions of thunderbird apparently
> worked differently.

Only it seems if used with Ubuntu because this has never occurred to me 
when I was running another Linux distro for 6 years.

>   Both thunderbirds worked in lucid and hardy using
> the same files. Wish you good luck but I actually wished you tried harder.
>    

I've tried so damn hard that I am on the verge of getting haemorrhoids!

> Repeat....(for lucid)
> clean slate: nothing (no .mozilla-thunderbird, no .thunderbird) at ~/.
> copy over your files, rename it .mozilla-thunderbird
> start thunderbird...your system will create .thunderbird.
>    

As I have said already.....been there, done that :-) .

Clean slate - 4 times in fact just to make sure that I can say again, 
"been there, done that", and all with the same results.

> If you have "been there, done that", well okay......
> I'll keep quiet.    :)
>    

Nah, don't do that. I hate a deafening silence :-) .

BC

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