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Trapped out by msgbox reading “Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding..."

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Trapped out of opening Thunderbird by msgbox that reads “Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. The old Thunderbird process must be closed to open a new window “ Msgbox has Close Thunderbird and Cancel cmdButtons. Clicking on Close Thunderbird gets msgbox “Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible”.

Running Win 7 Pro on this machine No Thunderbird processes shown running in Task Manager. I can’t find a profile in C:\Users... Following a recent post re: the same issue, I downloaded and installed latest build. Same results. Stuck. Can't open TBird...

Trapped out of opening Thunderbird by msgbox that reads “Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. The old Thunderbird process must be closed to open a new window “ Msgbox has Close Thunderbird and Cancel cmdButtons. Clicking on Close Thunderbird gets msgbox “Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible”. Running Win 7 Pro on this machine No Thunderbird processes shown running in Task Manager. I can’t find a profile in C:\Users... Following a recent post re: the same issue, I downloaded and installed latest build. Same results. Stuck. Can't open TBird...

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deleting the lock got it going thx christ