On 04-05-12 18:16, Albert Wagner wrote:

The files .mozilla and .thunderbird are not installed in home directory
anymore. I used those files. Reinstalling did nothing about them.
Deleting and than installing Firefox did put .mozilla in home. However,
deleting and installing Thunderbird did NOT put .thunderbird in home. I
need .thunderbird, but it is nowhere on my system. What's happened?

I just installed Xubuntu 12.04 as guest under VMware and the mentioned
files are there just as Thunderbird as standard mailer and Firefox as
standard browser. I downloaded the .iso files from the Xubuntu site and
stored them on an external disk. No problems installing.

Joep


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On 05/04/2012 11:26 AM, Bruno Martins wrote:

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On 05/04/2012 05:16 PM, Albert Wagner wrote:

The files .mozilla and .thunderbird are not installed in home
directory anymore. I used those files. Reinstalling did nothing
about them. Deleting and than installing Firefox did put .mozilla
in home. However, deleting and installing Thunderbird did NOT put
.thunderbird in home. I need .thunderbird, but it is nowhere on my
system. What's happened?


Have you started Thunderbird (for the profile to be created)?

Right. I had forgotten that the profile is created whenever it can't
find one. Thanks to all.


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On 05/05/12 02:16, Albert Wagner wrote:
The files .mozilla and .thunderbird are not installed in home
directory anymore. I used those files. Reinstalling did nothing
about them. Deleting and than installing Firefox did put .mozilla in
home. However, deleting and installing Thunderbird did NOT put
.thunderbird in home. I need .thunderbird, but it is nowhere on my
system. What's happened?


Both Firefox and Thunderbird *always* install the hidden directories
./mozilla and ./thunderbird in the /home directory of the user.


The ones I am now using started their life way back some 9 years or so
ago (under XP Pro) and which I backup every night.


If you cannot see the ./thunderbird one then you are looking in the
wrong place (for whatever reason). Or you are using some File Manager
where you don't have hidden files selected to be displayed - and you saw
the ./mozilla directory by some mysterious means (probably as the result
of waving a chicken foot over the screen [TM Ric] :-) ).


(You want to use something really useful then install, and use mc
(Midnight Commander). Anything else is inferior.)


BC



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On 05/05/2012 03:28 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

On 05/05/12 02:16, Albert Wagner wrote:

The files .mozilla and .thunderbird are not installed in home
directory anymore. I used those files. Reinstalling did nothing about
them. Deleting and than installing Firefox did put .mozilla in home.
However, deleting and installing Thunderbird did NOT put .thunderbird
in home. I need .thunderbird, but it is nowhere on my system. What's
happened?


Both Firefox and Thunderbird *always* install the hidden directories
./mozilla and ./thunderbird in the /home directory of the user.

The ones I am now using started their life way back some 9 years or so
ago (under XP Pro) and which I backup every night.

If you cannot see the ./thunderbird one then you are looking in the
wrong place (for whatever reason). Or you are using some File Manager
where you don't have hidden files selected to be displayed - and you saw
the ./mozilla directory by some mysterious means (probably as the result
of waving a chicken foot over the screen [TM Ric] :-) ).

(You want to use something really useful then install, and use mc
(Midnight Commander). Anything else is inferior.)


You mean ~/.thunderbird? Ric

(My Computer Voodoo chicken foot told me that is what you meant)


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On 06/05/12 05:58, Ric Moore wrote:

On 05/05/2012 03:28 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

On 05/05/12 02:16, Albert Wagner wrote:

The files .mozilla and .thunderbird are not installed in home
directory anymore. I used those files. Reinstalling did nothing about
them. Deleting and than installing Firefox did put .mozilla in home.
However, deleting and installing Thunderbird did NOT put .thunderbird
in home. I need .thunderbird, but it is nowhere on my system. What's
happened?


Both Firefox and Thunderbird *always* install the hidden directories
./mozilla and ./thunderbird in the /home directory of the user.

The ones I am now using started their life way back some 9 years or so
ago (under XP Pro) and which I backup every night.

If you cannot see the ./thunderbird one then you are looking in the
wrong place (for whatever reason). Or you are using some File Manager
where you don't have hidden files selected to be displayed - and you saw
the ./mozilla directory by some mysterious means (probably as the result
of waving a chicken foot over the screen [TM Ric] :-) ).

(You want to use something really useful then install, and use mc
(Midnight Commander). Anything else is inferior.)


You mean ~/.thunderbird? Ric

(My Computer Voodoo chicken foot told me that is what you meant)


My god, not only is he a Voodoo Master but a psychic as well! :-D

Yes, I did mean /.mozilla etc.

BC



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