Even More Progress ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... snippage ... Installing Thunderbird ...
>> 2. The second time I opened Thunderbird, it was empty, and the >> Install Wizard wanted all my data all over again. 150 messages >> vanished ... but it had let me do the setup all by myself without >> a peep of complaint. I inquired: >> Can I safely go through the Thunderbird Install Wizard and not >> overwrite these files ? I'll save 'em under a new name, just in >> case ... > ... snippage about backing up Mail, which I'll implement as soon > as I can get past the blank Inbox screen. Went to mozilla.org & looked at their FAQ for Thunderbird. As in my earlier posting, the advice and my menus differ dramatically. Therefore, I dug deeper, into the .mozilla-thunderbird folder. There I found two profiles folders, one with my name as the extension, the other attached thoroughly to "default." I then renamed both files, the correct one (default) to my name as the extension, and the incorrect (empty) one to georgeNG as the default. Then I interchanged the profile names, placing the alphanumeric portion of one onto the other and vice versa. Then I opened the profiles.ini file and swapped the profile names in there as well. As I had changed the wrong (empty) profile name to something that wasn't in the profiles.ini file, there is now only one correct profile, so when I opened Thunderbird, there was all my mail ! And the Wizard stayed quiet, even when I rebooted the 'puter to be sure. Having these files in plain text and visible to the user certainly makes it easier to fix things. George Langford -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
