hi
This morning I have tried to open Thunderbird only to find it won't open. I
click on Thunderbird, and my desktop thinks about it, but somehow won't load up
my default profile.
I have important e-mails that I can't afford to lose. Anyone please?
maybe one of there answers helps:
1. check if there is already a thunderbird running. but use tools like
ps or top to check for a running thunderbird (never trust the GUI :))).
if there is one, kill it. thunderbird wont start a second instance and
only tries to bring the already running tb to front.
2. play around with command line options. eg safe-mode (prevents
thunderbird from loading of extensions) or console.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_Line_Arguments#For_Linux_and_Mac_OS_X_users
3. use "strace -f thunderbird" to follow the system calls. maybe there
is a lockfile somewhere. at least you can see what is going on.
4. move your thunderbird-profile to a safe location (not tmp!) and try
to start TB with a brand-new profile dir. if this works, you could copy
the old mails, addressbook,... into the new profile dir.
so, no worries about the mails. they should be still somewhere in the
profile-dir. no matter if TB is starting or not :)
hth, gottfried
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