Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:52:12 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: Gary Aitken <garya@dreamchaser.org> Cc: Questions FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firefox & thunderbird upgrade problem Message-ID: <419E089C.60104@gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <419D9D6C.7050202@dreamchaser.org> References: <419D9D6C.7050202@dreamchaser.org>
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Gary Aitken wrote: > Hello all, > > I upgraged thunderbird and firefox via portupgrade. > > Things kinda work ok, except I cannot modify preferences, and it > doesn't see any of my old mail, which leads me to believe it > doesn't like my .thunderbird and .mozilla directory hierarchy. > > All of the subdirectories and files in the .thunderbird tree are > owned and writeable by the user, yet no modifications to the > configuration (preferences) will write. The same goes for > firefox. > > Can someone give me a clue as to what is going on? It behaves > as if some directory is not writeable, but I sure can't find it. > > Thanks for any pointers, > > Gary > Upgrading thunderbird and firefox involve instructions that are on the mozilla.org website. Certain directories in the .thunderbird/.mozilla directories need to be removed and regenerated by the new version of thunderbird/firefox. -- Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca>
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