How to locate Thunderbird email outside Save file? (Solved)
Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2012, 05:04
1. Thunderbird was set up and working OK.
I'd moved /root/.thunderbird to /mnt/home/.thunderbird and symlinked it back, and it was working OK.
Received emails were showing etc.
All being done within Slacko-5.3.3.1-SCSI.
All GOOD.
2. Then I installed a PET file for a financial program.
The program wouldn't run, so I uninstalled it, and rebooted without saving the session.
Contrary to my expectation, all traces of the install taking place were NOT gone.
About 4 lines of errors were now being displayed in the console window whenever I ran it, instead of the previous single error line.
So I made a "Pupsavehotbackup" of the Slacko, and...
Rebooted to Racy-5.3, and deleted the slackosave file, and restored a recent backup copy.
The backup didn't include an installation of Thunderbird, so....
3. I installed the identical version of Thunderbird to the version previously installed [version 13.0.1].
There was no /root/.thunderbird folder at this point in time.
Then...
(a) Ran thunderbird, told the opening dialog I wanted setup later, and shut down.
There was now a /root/.thunderbird folder.
So...
(b) I deleted it, and symlinked the previously saved /mnt/home/.thunderbird to /root.
(c) Thunderbird was now working as I wanted, with all three identities showing, with their stored emails, BUT...
(d) IT WOULD NOT PERSIST BETWEEN SESSIONS!
i.e. After reboot, even though I'd manually saved the session changes, by clicking the desktop "Save" icon...
When I ran Thunderbird, the first-run dialog appeared, and no identities or emails were shown.
(d) If I delete the /root/.thunderbird folder, and replace it with a symlink of /mnt/home/.thunderbird, then all is well for the remainder of the session, but all of this is lost at shut-down/reboot, even though I save the session changes.
I'd moved /root/.thunderbird to /mnt/home/.thunderbird and symlinked it back, and it was working OK.
Received emails were showing etc.
All being done within Slacko-5.3.3.1-SCSI.
All GOOD.
2. Then I installed a PET file for a financial program.
The program wouldn't run, so I uninstalled it, and rebooted without saving the session.
Contrary to my expectation, all traces of the install taking place were NOT gone.
About 4 lines of errors were now being displayed in the console window whenever I ran it, instead of the previous single error line.
So I made a "Pupsavehotbackup" of the Slacko, and...
Rebooted to Racy-5.3, and deleted the slackosave file, and restored a recent backup copy.
The backup didn't include an installation of Thunderbird, so....
3. I installed the identical version of Thunderbird to the version previously installed [version 13.0.1].
There was no /root/.thunderbird folder at this point in time.
Then...
(a) Ran thunderbird, told the opening dialog I wanted setup later, and shut down.
There was now a /root/.thunderbird folder.
So...
(b) I deleted it, and symlinked the previously saved /mnt/home/.thunderbird to /root.
(c) Thunderbird was now working as I wanted, with all three identities showing, with their stored emails, BUT...
(d) IT WOULD NOT PERSIST BETWEEN SESSIONS!
i.e. After reboot, even though I'd manually saved the session changes, by clicking the desktop "Save" icon...
When I ran Thunderbird, the first-run dialog appeared, and no identities or emails were shown.
(d) If I delete the /root/.thunderbird folder, and replace it with a symlink of /mnt/home/.thunderbird, then all is well for the remainder of the session, but all of this is lost at shut-down/reboot, even though I save the session changes.