cannot copy thunderbird profile
Posted: 03 Jun 2013, 22:07
I cannot copy my thunderbird profile from one home to another. This should simply be a matter of copying /home/thomas/.thunderbird to /home/viking/.thunderbird
I did let the new thunderbird autocreate the ~/.thunderbird directory then I closed it and copied over the good old profile data (and removed the autogenerated empty data first).
But I got this annoying message:
"Thunderbird is already running, but not responding. To open a new window you must close the existing thunderbird process, or restart your system"
Well it is NOT running and there is no lock file to be found.
I even removed thunderbird and reinstalled it with the .thunderbird directory in place.
If I remove it then thunderbird works as planed and creates the .thundebird directory which is rather empty.
So how on earth can I transfer my mail data?
I did let the new thunderbird autocreate the ~/.thunderbird directory then I closed it and copied over the good old profile data (and removed the autogenerated empty data first).
But I got this annoying message:
"Thunderbird is already running, but not responding. To open a new window you must close the existing thunderbird process, or restart your system"
Well it is NOT running and there is no lock file to be found.
I even removed thunderbird and reinstalled it with the .thunderbird directory in place.
If I remove it then thunderbird works as planed and creates the .thundebird directory which is rather empty.
So how on earth can I transfer my mail data?