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  1. Bug #563893
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 563893

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote : Re: [Bug 563893] Re: Thunderbird will not launch due to a recursive symlink

It says the the old profile folder was moved to .thunderbird.upstream
when the symlink was created.

On 04/17/2010 01:27 AM, igi wrote:
> The note describes what happened for the simlink.
> But inside the .thunderbird folder, my original abcdefgh.default folder
> (the one with prefs, account settings, extension, etc) was not existing
> anymore.
> A fresh new one was created instead.
> For instance, I have lost latest calendar event for the Lightning
> extension (in the storage.sdb file).
>
> Il 17/04/2010 01:47, Micah Gersten ha scritto:
>> The profile wasn't deleted, just moved. See NOTE in the Description
>> for this bug.
>>
>> On 04/16/2010 06:14 PM, igi wrote:
>>
>>> The bad thing is that my profile folder was cancelled during the update,
>>> this would have caused big inconvenience, If I had no backup.
>>>
>>>
>>
>