Thanks everyone. I've a bit to chew on and so will get to it. I had a message underneath the '<4%' message of which I could only read a couple of words. I've just had the same message. Thunderbird would not down load new mail:
'Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox' I tried one googled suggestion which was to 'chown' the /home/<name>/.mozilla-thunderbird file Simultaneously, when I went to use Konqueror as a super user kdesu konqueror I got a message saying it couldn't connect to x-server : 0 manually 'chown'-ing the Thunderbird file didn't work. I ended up rebooting and it seems fine. One thing I have noticed is that each time I've used my bluetooth adapter, I've had other odd problems (eg. shutdown only occurs if I press any key on the keyboard, as if after going to shutdown it requires 'assistance' to close. All of this is quite odd. Dapper was very stable - machine would be on for weeks at a time. 8.04 seems rather less so. This is rather frustrating and makes me wonder whether I should shut the machine down each night. These experiences are rather, urm...<cough>...Windows like :) Again, any help is most appreciated. Regards, Patrick -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
