-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Thunderbird

  • From: "Bundt, Albert E SGM RET" <albert.bundt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:54:33 -0800

If you get that command you can also. Bring up taskmaster....go to 
process....end thunderbird process. Then it will reopen. I get this 
sometimes the message....Thunderbird is already running ....so it won't 
open.
On 11/27/2010 6:42 PM, recklessmaverick wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly what fixed it as I was doing 2 or 3 things at
> once.  It was caused when I simply copied the /profiles folder to a safe
> spot and then after a clean install of Win7 and reinstall of TBird I
> simply copied the folder back to where it should be.... forgetting that
> the new install would have a different profile name.
>
> To fix it I deleted the profiles.ini file, deleted all the profiles from
> the /profiles folder and then copied ONLY the /name.default folder from
> the old /profiles folder to the new /profiles folder, then rebooted and
> relaunched Tbird and everything worked.
>
> On 11/27/2010 7:08 PM, Sr. Dorothy Robinson wrote:
>> Reckless,
>> Could you please tell us how you solved it?.....in case someone else runs
>> across the same problem... 8^)
>>
>> thx, Sr. Dorothy
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:34 PM, recklessmaverick<
>> recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
>>
>>> Never mind.  Got it solved.
>>>
>>> On 11/27/2010 5:00 PM, Don wilcox wrote:
>>>> OK.  Here's a new one....
>>>> I backed up my Thubnderbird accounts and settings by copying the profile
>>>> folder to a safe location.  I then did a clean install of Win7 and
>>>> re-installed Thunderbird and then copied the profile folder to the
>>>> appropriate location.  On launch of Thunderbird I get an error message
>>>> saying that T'bird is already running and I need to close it or restart
>>> the
>>>> computer.  It is not running and restarting the computer does not help.
>>>    Any
>>>> ideas?
>>>>
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