profiles in Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

> I know that this happens because of the presence of a lock file in the
> TBird profile folder. If we delete the lock file, then Tbird will
> begin to start normally. One potential solution is to write a new
> shortcut that
> 
> 1) finds the lock file and deletes it first, then
> 2) starts Thunderbird.
> 
> But this seems unclean. People might click it when Thunderbird is
> already actually running, and I don't know what that might do.


Please dont create workarounds like this. Just report the problem with
all the technical details to mozilla's bugzilla if it isnt already
reported. Just in case this problem has already been solved try the
latest version of thunderbird first

regards
Rahul Sundaram