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

[Basil Chupin]

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.)

BC