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thunderbird package

  1. Bug #563893
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 563893

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

We added the symlink because others we having issues with extensions
that still tried to use the old profile folder. Your old profile
should still be in .thunderbird if .thunderbird.upstream was never
created.

On 04/18/2010 12:31 PM, rschlitz wrote:
> As others my configuration files were completely wiped out in the
> amd64 version. Also symlink is created each time Thunderbird is
> started: .mozilla-thunderbird -> /home/user/.thunderbird
>
> A .thunderbird.upstream sub-directory never appeared in the home
> directory.
>
> This is quite bad form, even if it is a beta, since recovery seems
> almost impossible. Perhaps Thunderbird needs an auto-backup for
> the configuration files.
>