Hemtah Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 (edited) Hello, In my quest of looking 4 a email client, i am actually trying thunderbird, and i have a little problem, thunderbird comes from rpm package, when i create a profile and close thunderbird my profile is gone! what's going on? could someone help me to get thunderbird working? Thank a lot. Edited February 11, 2005 by Hemtah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 i don't know (don' use t-bird), but have you saved your profile? you can grap the latest version from the firefox-site, in case the rpm is buggy and compile it yourself. then it should work. btw.: i use evolution since a very long time and i am quite happy with it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemtah Posted February 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 that's not the problem look like thunderbird can't write into the dir do i have to chmod that dir? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bruno_p Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 No. Thunderbird stores your profile in a .thunderbird directory under your home dir. So you should have the rights on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 yes, he should have the rights, but maybe something ain't properly configured. i'd take a look at the config-files rights and change them, if needed. taking a look won't hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 I've run into similar issues with Firebird, simple solution was to un-install it, delete the /home/you/.thunderbird file and than install it again. Dumb, I know, but it has worked in getting some things working..... Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemtah Posted February 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 that's my second install, and still got the same prob, can someone give me a good urpm link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbpersson Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 that's my second install, and still got the same prob, can someone give me a good urpm link? I am happily running Thunderbird on my Mandrake 10.1 system. I will tell you what I did. Mind you, I am a total newbie at this and probably did it all wrong but it works.... I went out to the Mozilla web site and downloaded the Thunderbird tarball or whatever you call it. I saved it in my home directory. Then as ROOT I un-archived it and placed the Thunderbird folder just as it was in \usr\lib. So at this point I had created a \usr\lib\Thunderbird folder with all sorts of folders and files inside it. Then I logged on as myself and in the KDE setup created a new icon under Internet--->Email, told it to run the PLAIN Thunderbird file in the new Thunderbird folder and for the icon I told it to grab the large one in the \usr\lib\Thunderbird\icons folder. Yes, yes, yes, I see that I have all my slashes going the wrong way. Sorry! I'm used to working with Windows directories. :D I hope this helps. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 I am a total newbie at this and probably did it all wrong but it works.... It's only wrong if it doesnt' work..... Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemtah Posted February 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2005 deleted the thunderbird directory in home then install it again, and it works great now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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