<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6348">Well there you go, there's a clue... your fully qualified path is in /tmp - a memory filesystem.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6347">Upon rebooting, /tmp is clean again.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6346"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6345"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6344"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6343"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6342"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6341"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6131"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6130">If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.<br>"I can" is a way of life.<br>More and Bigger is not always Better.<br>The road to success is always uphill.<br>Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.</div></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_5966" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_5965" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_5964" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6206" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> a <a@kaluta.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> NMGLUG.org mailing list <nmglug@lists.nmglug.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 18, 2015 5:33 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [nmglug] ubuntu thunderbird mail accounts and settings disappear after reboot.<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6207" class="y_msg_container"><br>Ted:<br clear="none">slowly working through the suggestions you guys have sent.the terminal <br clear="none">and .thunderbird paths match.<br clear="none">.mozilla and .thunderbird to not appear in home folder until I click on <br clear="none">mail.that is as far as I have gotten.seems it should work sinch they <br clear="none">match,I guess I am missing the obvious?<br clear="none">a<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Terminal:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:uest-2I0FoS@desktop" href="mailto:uest-2I0FoS@desktop">uest-2I0FoS@desktop</a>:~$ cd .thunderbird/<br clear="none"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1434669327767_6352" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:guest-2I0FoS@desktop" href="mailto:guest-2I0FoS@desktop">guest-2I0FoS@desktop</a>:~/.thunderbird$ cat profiles.ini<br clear="none">[General]<br clear="none">StartWithLastProfile=1<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[Profile0]<br clear="none">Name=default<br clear="none">IsRelative=1<br clear="none">Path=j7hf0xil.default<br clear="none"><br clear="none">.thunderbird/:<br clear="none">/tmp/guest-2I0FoS/.thunderbird/j7hf0xil.default<br clear="none"><br clear="none">t<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 06/17/2015 12:05 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br clear="none">> a., I took another look at the Thunderbird page and there is a way to<br clear="none">> see if you are using the profile that has been established. I also<br clear="none">> noted the loss of profile address happens occasionally. Interesting<br clear="none">> that kind of error. So I took a look at my files and saw that I could<br clear="none">> check for the profile address.<br clear="none">> To check Thunderbird profilefrom command line:<br clear="none">> cd .thunderbird/<br clear="none">> ls -a<br clear="none">> . .. Crash Reports k33p8gn6.default profiles.ini<br clear="none">> cat profiles.ini<br clear="none">> [General]<br clear="none">> StartWithLastProfile=1<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> [Profile0]<br clear="none">> Name=default<br clear="none">> IsRelative=1<br clear="none">> Path=k33p8gn6.default<br clear="none">> The tabbed over lines are the output. Note the Path should reference<br clear="none">> the same name as is listed in ./thunderbird/ directory. If this is<br clear="none">> correct you may have to do all the work of re-inputting your details,<br clear="none">> but your files as on the page Brian referenced. 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