awesome info, thanks! On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Derek Trotter <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sharing this in the event the information may be helpful to someone > else. > > Today for the first time since I had the problems with loosing my windows > installation, I opened thunderbird and tried to use its chat option. The > settings for a facebook chat account I use were gone. > > Then I went through the procedure to create a new account. I entered all > the required information and clicked the enter button, but nothing happened. > Here's how I fixed it. > > I backed up everything in my profile directory. Then I deleted everything > except the mail directory. Next I started thunderbird. First it recreated > a bunch of file in the empty directory. Then it asked me if I wanted to set > up a mail account. I closed that wizard and tried to set up the chat > account. I was able to. > > I went to this site > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_and_folders_in_the_profile_-_Thunderbird > where there's a list of the files in a thunderbird profile directory and > what they do. > From the backup directory I copied the files that contain the saved > addresses (abook.mab and history.mab), passwords(key3.db and Signons.sqlite) > and prefs.js which the site said contains all the mail server settings. > > When I started thunderbird, my email accounts were there and so was the chat > account. It also let me add a new account. I looked inside prefs.js and > saw the settings for the chat account. This tells me while prefs.js stores > the account information, some other file is needed for existing chat > accounts to be visible and new ones to be created. > > Goodnight > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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