Thunderbird ?

philo wrote:
I just performed new installs of Thunderbird on a Linux machine and a
Win10 machine.


I copied my old profile to the Linux machine's "random" folder within
profile and it worked as expected.


On the Win10 machine there are two "random" folders within profiles


one ending in .default


the other in .default-release


None of my other Thunderbird installations on Win10 have two such
sub-folders.


Anyway, once I copied my profile to the one ending with .default-release
all worked OK


Just wondering what is the reason for two folders within profiles


Thanks

The 25 words or less is "these people are nuts".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542025

It looks like somehow, you ended up mixing (or "chasing"),
a beta with a release or a release with a beta or... whatever.

If you're pulling these from here manually...

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/

be aware that:

23.0b1/ beta stream (won't come from main mozilla page...)
24.0.1/ release stream (will come from main mozilla page...)
24.0/ release stream (will come from main mozilla page...)

Betas will auto-update with new beta versions.
Releases will auto-update with new release versions.

You should be moderately careful to *not* mix stocks.

In addition, on Windows (more "these people are nuts" stuff),
they have been known to put the wrong bitness in a
folder. It would not be unheard of for C:\Program Files
to receive a 32-bit install, instead of C:\Program Files (x86).
And, this was "no accident". It was a purposeful campaign
to "park something in a convenient place", like
driving over a curb and half-parking your car on the
sidewalk where the pedestrians walk. Call the men in
white coats, to take you away...

"Feeding habits ?" We don't need no stinkin feeding habits.
We'll do what we want, and document what we did in
bugzilla, in conversational text for people to dig up
by Googling. For some value of "everyone needs a CS
degree to use these products".

At one time, you could see the profile path in the
setup dialog, but the last time I looked in a more
modern version, I didn't see it where I expected to
see it.

If you can locate what they've done with "about:",
it might say what stream it is (beta or release or ...).

Paul

On 1/13/20 11:00 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
I just performed new installs of Thunderbird on a Linux machine and a
Win10 machine.


I copied my old profile to the Linux machine's "random" folder within
profile and it worked as expected.


On the Win10 machine there are two "random" folders within profiles


one ending in .default


the other in .default-release


None of my other Thunderbird installations on Win10 have two such
sub-folders.


Anyway, once I copied my profile to the one ending with
.default-release all worked OK


Just wondering what is the reason for two folders within profiles


Thanks

The 25 words or less is "these people are nuts".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542025

It looks like somehow, you ended up mixing (or "chasing"),
a beta with a release or a release with a beta or... whatever.

If you're pulling these from here manually...

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/

be aware that:

** 23.0b1/** beta stream (won't come from main mozilla page...)
** 24.0.1/** release stream (will come from main mozilla page...)
** 24.0/**** release stream (will come from main mozilla page...)

Betas*** will auto-update with new beta versions.
Releases will auto-update with new release versions.

You should be moderately careful to *not* mix stocks.

In addition, on Windows (more "these people are nuts" stuff),
they have been known to put the wrong bitness in a
folder. It would not be unheard of for C:\Program Files
to receive a 32-bit install, instead of C:\Program Files (x86).
And, this was "no accident". It was a purposeful campaign
to "park something in a convenient place", like
driving over a curb and half-parking your car on the
sidewalk where the pedestrians walk. Call the men in
white coats, to take you away...

"Feeding habits ?" We don't need no stinkin feeding habits.
We'll do what we want, and document what we did in
bugzilla, in conversational text for people to dig up
by Googling. For some value of "everyone needs a CS
degree to use these products".

At one time, you could see the profile path in the
setup dialog, but the last time I looked in a more
modern version, I didn't see it where I expected to
see it.

If you can locate what they've done with "about:",
it might say what stream it is (beta or release or ...).

** Paul


I guess now that I have it working I'll not worry about it.

It is a on a machine I will only be using for a few months.