Comment 23 for bug 563893

Today, the lucid thunderbird update helper asked if I wanted to reimport thunderbird-2 profile settings or keep the thunderbird-3-beta ones. I selected the latter, thunderbird did not start.
I then found the self-referencing symlink .thunderbird and deleted it.
Thunderbird seems to have created a new profile in .thunderbird-3.0.
My normal thunderbird profile is now in .thunderbird-2.0-replaced.
thunderbird starts with an empty profile.
Thunderbird seems to have created a new profile in .thunderbird.
I removed .thunderbird-3 and put a copy of .thunderbird-2.0-replaced there.
thunderbird-3.0 does start and opens my profile, however this is pre3 shredder.
I got it fixed then by putting a symlink to .thunderbird-3.0 at .thunderbird, don’t know though why that had to happen.