From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 14:51:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8D116A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:51:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF0343D2F for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:51:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAJEn2NX066297; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:49:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <419E089C.60104@gldis.ca> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:52:12 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041114) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Aitken References: <419D9D6C.7050202@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <419D9D6C.7050202@dreamchaser.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc4/561/Fri Oct 29 06:26:00 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on constans.gldis.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: firefox & thunderbird upgrade problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:51:46 -0000 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