Thunderbird won't close or uninstall
Rick
opened it again, it would tell me tbird was already running. I looked in
task manager, no TB as an application or process. I looked in process
explorer, nothing related to TB or even Mozilla.
This would happen even if I uninstalled and reinstalled. I ran a full
scan for virus. Nothing. I powered off, reinstalled, maybe I could get
in the first time, but then it would happen again. I deleted profile,
ran a disk wipe to wipe free space. That didn't work either.
I cleaned registry I don't know how many times. But after each removal,
I would clean registry. There were some entries relating to TB that
would get cleaned up.
I finally reinstalled XP, formatting the drive in the process. I did
this twice today. Not a happy camper.
Right now, I have it installed and not using the folders, etc from the
old profile. I think something in there is confusing TB.. But I don't
know what.
Any ideas?
goodwin
> Something happened within TB. If I closed it out properly and then
> opened it again, it would tell me tbird was already running. I looked in
> task manager, no TB as an application or process. I looked in process
> explorer, nothing related to TB or even Mozilla.
>
> This would happen even if I uninstalled and reinstalled. I ran a full
> scan for virus. Nothing. I powered off, reinstalled, maybe I could get
> in the first time, but then it would happen again. I deleted profile,
> ran a disk wipe to wipe free space. That didn't work either.
>
> I cleaned registry I don't know how many times. But after each removal,
> I would clean registry. There were some entries relating to TB that
> would get cleaned up.
>
> I finally reinstalled XP, formatting the drive in the process. I did
> this twice today. Not a happy camper.
good greif, you are kidding, right?
I'm sorry, but that is the silliest solution you could have come up with.
>
> Right now, I have it installed and not using the folders, etc from the
> old profile. I think something in there is confusing TB.. But I don't
> know what.
>
> Any ideas?
try using google, maybe or look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use
Rick
> On 06/10/2010 08:16 PM Rick scribbled:
>
>> Something happened within TB. If I closed it out properly and then
>> opened it again, it would tell me tbird was already running. I looked in
>> task manager, no TB as an application or process. I looked in process
>> explorer, nothing related to TB or even Mozilla.
>>
>> This would happen even if I uninstalled and reinstalled. I ran a full
>> scan for virus. Nothing. I powered off, reinstalled, maybe I could get
>> in the first time, but then it would happen again. I deleted profile,
>> ran a disk wipe to wipe free space. That didn't work either.
>>
>> I cleaned registry I don't know how many times. But after each removal,
>> I would clean registry. There were some entries relating to TB that
>> would get cleaned up.
>>
>> I finally reinstalled XP, formatting the drive in the process. I did
>> this twice today. Not a happy camper.
>
> good greif, you are kidding, right?
>
> I'm sorry, but that is the silliest solution you could have come up with.
>
>>
Sea Monkey had not started up, so it should not have "locked" the profile.
Nothing showed up as being running in Applications, processes or using
process explorer.
Thanks for the link. I didn't Google for a solution.
I still think something in the old profile is confusing TB. I just don't
know what it could be...
Traveller
Did you look for a file called "parent.lock" in your TB profile? If you
find it (while TB is closed) delete it. This is the most common cause of
the problem you describe.
Dave
Rick
Great. Thanks. Located it and will delete it next time it happens.