very strange Thunderbird error after migrating from one mac to another
tansaku
I have been using Thunderbird for over five years. Love it.
I just transfered over everything to a new mac (from my old mac - both
OSX 10.5.6) and I got some real strange errors. Most of them went
away when I reinstalled Thunderbird, but a general one remains. In
certain dialogs, e.g. in my Account settings, there are what appear to
be markup errors. Like some of the fields are blank and I get red
characters appearing in the middle of the settings window like:
<menulist label="&newfolderclickhere.label"
__^
Has anyone ever experience anything like this?
I guess my profile must be corrupted somehow ...
Many thanks in advance
CHEERS> SAM
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
See if creating a new profile works and if so, transfer your data to the
newly created profile. Have you tried an uninstall and re-install?
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion
www.ufaq.org
Netscape - Flock - Firefox - Thunderbird - Seamonkey Support
Melchert Fruitema
It looks like a chrome problem. Perhaps trouble with the selected theme?
Did you copy the old profile, or did you selectively replace contents
from the old in the new profile?
--
Kind regards,
Melchert
(MacOS 10.3.9 / Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 2.0)
tansaku
Many thanks for getting back to me.
I did previously try creating a new profile, and that seemed to work.
I tried transfering over just the mail components to the new theme
(i.e. just the Mail folder), but none of the Mail showed up.
I did re-install TB and as I said that was an improvement (I could
actually access all my mail archive).
Is there a particular procedure for transfering data from one profile
to another other than just moving files and directories around.
Many thanks in advance
CHEERS> SAM
tansaku
The old profile was copied over verbatim.
CHEERS> SAM
On Apr 19, 6:54 am, Melchert Fruitema <mel.nos...@hccnet.ppppmf>
wrote:
Leonidas Jones
I agree with Mechert, it sounds like a theme problem. Are you using the
default theme?
When you followed Jay's advice to transfer the mail, did you create the
mail accounts first. Simply transferring the Mail folder from old
profile to new will not cause the accounts to appear.
Lee
tansaku
I am not sure what theme I am using. I have never made any changes to
themes, so I assume it is default.
I have tried creating a new profile, and then transferring the mail as
you suggest. That worked, and even more strangely the problems from
the original profile, when I subsequently re-opened, seem to have
disappeared. Very strange. I did apply a series of (seemingly
unrelated) OSX updates as well, so I am not sure what fixed this.
Many thanks for the help from everyone.
CHEERS> SAM
Thanks for the tip.
Melchert Fruitema
> <moved down below the quoted text (a newsgroup custom)>
>
> On Apr 19, 6:54 am, Melchert Fruitema wrote:
> >
> > It looks like a chrome problem. Perhaps trouble with the selected theme?
> > Did you copy the old profile, or did you selectively replace contents
> > from the old in the new profile?
> >
>
>
That does not answer the questions, I'm afraid. Anyway, as stated in
other replies, the best way probably is copying data from your old
profile, into the new profile.
So, if your new profile seems corrupted, create another. Use a Terminal
command to start up the profile manager in Thunderbird, enter:
/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin -p
Melchert Fruitema
> Hi Lee,
>
> I am not sure what theme I am using. I have never made any changes to
> themes, so I assume it is default.
>
> I have tried creating a new profile, and then transferring the mail as
> you suggest. That worked, and even more strangely the problems from
> the original profile, when I subsequently re-opened, seem to have
> disappeared. Very strange. I did apply a series of (seemingly
> unrelated) OSX updates as well, so I am not sure what fixed this.
>
> Many thanks for the help from everyone.
>
> CHEERS> SAM
>
>