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moved tbird portable and it stuffed extensions upSubmitted by os7 on October 27, 2009 - 2:06am
hey folks c:applications/thunderbird and now most of my extensions dont work including lighting which is major pain in the butt as i have quite a few calendars i use with it p.s. forgot to mention that in the extensions tab in the addons options, the extensions including lightning are still all listed there but they just say they will be installed when tbird is restarted, which dosnt happen no matter how many times i restart tbird. ( categories: )
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I know when I move Firefox to a new drive or folder...
I have to click on "find updates" in my extensions, then after the restart, all the extensions work like they should (they will say "compatibility update applied" I would imagine they would be the same with Thunderbird. I haven't gone past 1.5.0.14 with TB, so I never have had that issue, but I know when I went to FF 3.5, I had to do that method with every new drive letter or folder change.
with FFP
I am experienecing it every time I copy it manualy somewhere elese, with TB I had it also once after copying the whole folder to other place.
Cur: simply reinstall or update all the extensions, all will be as before, no problem.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Faster solution
Close Thunderbird, then go into your profile directory (
PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\Data\profilemost likely) and delete extensions.rdf. Then run TB again.The only problem is, there are several problems.
ok looked into those
ok looked into those suggestions.
firstly, the update button in addons is shaded out, as in i cant press it
secondly i deleted that extensions file and restarted but tbird behaves exactly the same, i close it down and that file is back there.
reinstall
>i close it down and that file is back there.<
yes this is produced automaticaly. The meaning was that if the file goes corrupt it can produce strange effects.
But if this did not help stright away, just simply reinstall all the extensions, this is what I had to do to solve all those problems.
Extensions like enigmail, well to be sure I would just back up the keyrings first, but they will survive the reinstall.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
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You are deleting that file while Thunderbird isn't running, right? If you do it while it's running, it'll just reproduce the corrupt file. What you want to do is delete it while TB is not running so on next startup it'll rebuild a correct one.
The only problem is, there are several problems.