Try the following: Where is my profine stored? It brings you to non existing buttons etc. This is so for most iof the support.
It 's a general problem: the structure of the "help sysytem" has been changed (perhaps in part I dion't kow) so the the flow of questions ends up to non existing (no more existing..) tips, suggestions, or whole instructions of how to, no more existing or operating. Very frustrating. I've foun my profile, in Linux, on the terminal with something like "find -name *.mab " and got it in a split second. None of the suggested ways in the help suite worked! This is a general question for the site designers, thanks for helping [Indeed: it's the Help menu...]. Greets, Giancarlo. Please follow the help trail: you will obtain what I say, sorry. g.
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@Zenos. Many thanks for your screenshot, which solved the question. I have a Tundebird version for Linux, which, as far a s I see, is somewhat different from what you have. The previous version had not all the sub-menus you show, however he recent update I made of "my" Thunderbird has brought it nearly to what you displayed simply we had different programs. I suggest that this closes the thread. Thaks to all for helping. Giancarlo.
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yeah, Linux and windows and OSX all have different menu systems. As Thunderbird users are 80 odd percent windows you will see most instruction and directions written for Windows. BTW there have been no real fundamental changes to the menu system since version 3. Some things added is about all.
Use this simple table to translate. I do http://kb.mozillazine.org/Menu_differences_in_Windows,_Linux,_and_Mac
Please try this: Title "How to find your profile" Suggested steps: Click Menu On the Help menu click Troubleshooting Information In the Application Basics section, see Profile Directory, click on Open Directory; The Files windows will show the name of the profile as well as the path to it. Comment: none of the above exists, at least as far as I see. The same happens when navigating within the help system: often we end up on nothing (to say an unexisting item). Very frustrating. Greetings, Giancarlo.
Here is "Troubleshooting Information".
(See attached image.)
But I'd recommend that you enable the traditional menus.
Hold down the <alt> key, tap V, select Toolbars, tick the checkboxes. Or in the Application Menu, as used in the screenshot, it would be under "Preferences". That's probably "Options" on a Windows system.
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I though the traditional menus were active by default on Linux. Have I been living a dream?
Also enabling the menu bar is as simple as right clicking the toolbar and clicking on the menu entry.
@Matt: I must confess that I don't know for sure what the default appearance in Linux is. I'm afraid that I find out-of-the-box Thunderbird ugly and inefficient to use. Mine is, as you can see, tweaked to a somewhat traditional appearance. I don't care for modern fads such as aero, glass effects, or tabs in the title bar. When I use aero in Windows, it's simply for the drop-shadow, making the active window easier to identify.
The traditional menus are certainly optional in the Linux variant, in that they can be disabled.
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@Zenos. Many thanks for your screenshot, which solved the question. I have a Tundebird version for Linux, which, as far a s I see, is somewhat different from what you have. The previous version had not all the sub-menus you show, however he recent update I made of "my" Thunderbird has brought it nearly to what you displayed simply we had different programs. I suggest that this closes the thread. Thaks to all for helping. Giancarlo.