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  • [OT] Upgrade of Thunderbird.

    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 7 09:08:19 2019
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch. I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.

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  • From Daniel60@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 7 10:57:02 2019
    Doug Laidlaw wrote on 7/10/2019 7:08 PM:
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch.  I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.

    Hmm! For several updates, the SeaMonkey Suite (think Firefox,
    Thunderbird, plus) developers have recommended new profiles for each
    update, because the 'new' SM program modifies the profiles in such a
    manner that if you had to go back a SM version, the 'updated' profile
    would be unusable by the older SM version!!

    Maybe this has now spread to TB!

    --
    Daniel

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 7 13:08:11 2019
    On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:08:19 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch. I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.

    For those users, the fix is to look around in the old ~/.thunderbird/*.default and
    copy just the files needed to the new ~/.thunderbird/*.default whatever.

    I was able to do that for my address file (abook.mab) and several
    local folders.

    All found using grep -r some_known_string_here ~/.thunderbird/* or
    using locate for folder name.


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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 7 15:16:50 2019
    On 10/7/19 4:08 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch.  I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.

    According to https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/69.0beta/releasenotes/
    this is a "known issue" in Thunderbird that was as yet unresolved. Your
    old profile is still there, and usable, but an upstream bug prevents it.

    I ran into the problem with one install test of T-bird 68 myself, and
    that was with the 68.1.0 version, BEFORE I even started to test 68.1.1.

    With version 69, they say a workaround is to start T-bird from the
    command line using the "-p" option. This allows you to select the
    profile you want to use. I believe this would also work with T-bird 68.
    I had found another solution before I saw this, renaming the
    ..thunderbird that had been altered by running the update to ..thunderbird.old, and re-creating the original .thunderbird from a
    backup. However, this was an install that I hadn't used much, and I have
    no idea if what I did would have worked with an install I use more
    frequently.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Mon Oct 7 23:52:15 2019
    On 7/10/19 7:08 pm, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch.  I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.


    I have missed out on that little drama
    I had an update this morning and now have Thunderbird version 68.1.1

    I also tried a successful test post

    On a bonafide test site, Bits :-)


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    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.2.13-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Fri Oct 11 23:53:01 2019
    On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:08:19 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch. I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.

    Yup, and today's Thunderbird new point release, thunderbird-68.1.1.tar.bz2, wanted a compete new default.

    My current solution is to launch thunderbird with
    --profile $HOME/.thunderbird/*.default-release-1

    Today's Firefox, firefox-69.0.3.tar.bz2, also wanted a clean default install. Just checked and firefox has the same -profile option.

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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 12 02:11:08 2019
    On 10/11/19 6:53 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
    On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:08:19 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch. I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.

    Yup, and today's Thunderbird new point release, thunderbird-68.1.1.tar.bz2, wanted a compete new default.

    Fascinating. Mageia has had thunderbird 68.1.1 for several days. I'm
    using it now. Checking...

    Ah. Now it makes more sense. You made a typo, Bit. Today's release was
    68.1.2.

    TJ

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sat Oct 12 03:57:58 2019
    On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 21:11:08 -0400, TJ wrote:
    On 10/11/19 6:53 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
    On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:08:19 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    Thunderbird has just notified that for some users (born losers like me)
    the old profile will no longer work in TB 68, and we must create a new
    one from scratch. I created a new profile just sufficient to post to
    this newsgroup.

    Yup, and today's Thunderbird new point release, thunderbird-68.1.1.tar.bz2, >> wanted a compete new default.

    Fascinating. Mageia has had thunderbird 68.1.1 for several days. I'm
    using it now. Checking...

    Ah. Now it makes more sense. You made a typo, Bit. Today's release was 68.1.2.

    Was not a typo. Just a cut/paste. My bad, should have pasted thunderbird-68.1.2.tar.bz2


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