[SOLVED] Firefox & Thunderbird Settings Gone :-(

vol1 · Last edited by vol1 on Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:11 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I just updated Firefox and Thunderbird. Now, using the new versions ALL Bookmarks and ALL mails don't get displayed

. My bookmarks and mails are saved on a FAT32 partition, that is shared with WinXP.

Can anyone tell me what the problem could be?

Thanks in advance,
vol.1

ReefShark · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 8:46 am Post subject:

I haven't updated Firefox yet (I'm doing it this afternoon, but I sure did backup my bookmarks just now

) but I have the same problem with Thunderbird. Mails are no longer displayed, mail is not retreived. Solved it by (re)moving the ~/.thunderbird/default/<foo>/compreg.dat file.
With many thanks to our German forumfriends and my high-school german language teacher

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vol1 · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:07 am Post subject: :-)

Hi,

thanks for your good advice. It worked! I really was thinking about how often I'll update Thunderbird in the future, if I have to update all my settings again - but with removing only one file I guess I can life with

.

Sorry, didn't see that anyone had the same problem (German shouldn't actually be a problem for me), next time I've a problem I'll do more searching before posting it.

Thanks,
vol.1

vol1 · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:10 am Post subject: Works also for Firefox

Hi again,

For everyone that has the same problem: I forgot to say that removing 'compreg.dat' in Firefoxes profile folder (~/.mozilla/firefox/...) also got my Firefox working again!

Bye,
vol.1