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Old March 16th 19, 01:36 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On 16/03/2019 11:53, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Would there be no end of grief if you tried to put your Thunderbird and
Firefox profiles in the _same_ place, or would they "play nice"
together? Just curious!


I've not done so, and have no intention and would strongly advise
against trying it, because both programs lock certain key files.
Therefore I suspect what would happen is that the first program launched
would lock the files, and the second program launched would do one of
three things:
1) Abort with an error message;
2) Hang waiting for the files to become unlocked;
3) Go into an auto-recovery mode and create a new profile
back in the user's directory on the C: drive.

My guess is that the third is what would happen, but, if you're lucky,
you may get a choice simply to exit the program instead.
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