I have done this, MCBastos, with Thunderbird 12.0.1 and it appears to
have worked. HOWEVER, your warnings to NEVER open Thunderbird again have
me shaking in my boots. Is there any link, such as within Copernic
search result preview pain, etc., that would open Thunderbird if I were
to click it? If it has found a link on a search that is, say, an
attachment of a jpeg, or anything else, or even if I just double-click a
found e-mail in the preview pain to open it, will that open Thunderbird?
I have backed up my SeaMonkey profile as a safety precaution, but I'm
hoping to never need it.
Thanks!
-George
MCBastos wrote:
> Interviewed by CNN on 09/02/2012 21:36, George Carden told the world:
>> Does Copernic Desktop Search function with SeaMonkey 2.7?
> Not directly. But I managed to find a workaround.
>
> What I did was to install a copy of Thunderbird 3.1.x, run it once
> without adding any accounts (so it creates its own profiles), then edit
> the Thunderbird profiles.ini (you can find it in %APPDATA%\Thunderbird)
> in order to make it point to *Seamonkey's* profile instead of
Thunderbirds.
>
> My Thunderbird profiles.ini looks like this:
>
> [General]
> StartWithLastProfile=1
>
> [Profile0]
> Name=default
> IsRelative=1
> Path=../Mozilla/Seamonkey/Profiles/27kymd3w.default
>
> Once this is done, you must NEVER open Thunderbird again (well, unless
> you turn back the profiles.ini to its original values beforehand).
> There's a non-trivial risk of damaging your profile if you do so, since
> the structure of Seamonkey's profiles and Thunderbird's profiles is
> likely different (Thunderbird 3.1 uses an older version of Gecko, for
> instance -- and doesn't include some components Seamonkey has.)
>
> I tried uninstalling Thunderbird afterwards (for maximum safety and to
> free a bit of space), but Copernic stopped scanning my e-mails. So,
> there's something in a valid Thunderbird install that it needs. Since I
> have a lot of hard disk space and this is a non-shared computer, having
> an inactive TB does not cause me problems, so I didn't try to figure out
> what is it that Copernic needs.
>
> I didn't try this with a newer release of Thunderbird, either. Copernic
> only claims compatibility with releases up to 3.1, but it *might* work.
> If you try it, please report your results.
>
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