This is a thunderbird on Linux question - sorry

b4rtleby · Post by **b4rtleby** » December 5th, 2003, 7:32 am

I know that this is the wrong place for asking a question on thunderbird, but I couldn´t post it in the right forum, it didn´t worked.

I have trouble starting my thunderbird mail after a system crash. When I try to start it now, it says that my profile is in use, and if I want to create a new one. In other applications there is a file that indicates that a program is running, wich can manually be deleted if a system crash has happend an the prog didn´t shut down the right way.

Can anybody help me ? I searched a long time for getting help on this problem, an I can´t get to my mail.

Thanks a lot

Bart

Old Persist · Post by **Old Persist** » December 5th, 2003, 7:43 am

Go into your profile and delete the lock file.
/home/user/.thunderbird/default/random number.slt/lock

b4rtleby · Post by **b4rtleby** » December 5th, 2003, 9:15 am

Thanks for this answerPersist, but it didn´t helped to fix my problem. I don´t find my profile folder in the path you wrote. I have a path like /home/user/.thunderbird/defaults/profiles. But there are no specific folders named like my profile anywhere. And also no Folders named /<i>random number </i>.slt/.
I found no lockfile, where could it be stored when it is not there ?

thanks

Bart