I can't get the profile manager to start.
I go to ~/.thunderbird and execute
./thunderbird -ProfileManager
Instead of giving me a profile manager window it just gives me an instance of the thunderbird mailer.
I am having trouble with the thunderbird mailer at the moment and it was suggested to me that I change my profile (using the foregoing command).
I am running (the extremely elderly) Fedora 17.
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Actually I have figured out the problem: The instructions that I was following said to go to the profile directory
~/.thunderbird/********.default
and execute ./thunderbird -ProfileManager.
But there was no thunderbird executable in that directory! So I went to a directory in which there *was* a thunderbird executable, and issued the command. With the unsatisfactory results tht I described.
I *finally* found that if I went to /.thunderbird/********.default and issued the command "thunderbird -ProfileManager" (*not* preceded by "./" --- so that I got the "system" thunderbird command) then the result was as desired.
So my problem is solved. But it had nothing to do with leaving thunderbird running.
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To start Thunderbird, Firefox and SeaMonkey with the Profilemanager, you need to make sure they are completely closed/exited first.
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Actually I have figured out the problem: The instructions that I was following said to go to the profile directory
~/.thunderbird/********.default
and execute ./thunderbird -ProfileManager.
But there was no thunderbird executable in that directory! So I went to a directory in which there *was* a thunderbird executable, and issued the command. With the unsatisfactory results tht I described.
I *finally* found that if I went to /.thunderbird/********.default and issued the command "thunderbird -ProfileManager" (*not* preceded by "./" --- so that I got the "system" thunderbird command) then the result was as desired.
So my problem is solved. But it had nothing to do with leaving thunderbird running.
In terminal you should cd to where you have your thunderbird program folder and run the thunderbird script there, not the separate Profile folder.
Or make a launcher or panel command link to the thunderbird script in Thunderbird folder and add the -Profilemanager on end.
I don't know what you mean by "cd to where you have your thunderbird program folder and run the thunderbird script there". What is the "thunderbird program folder"? On my system the files associated with thunderbird seem to be located in /usr/lib64/thunderbird. Is that the directory that you mean?
That's where I *did* cd to, but then I did "./thunderbird -ProfileManage", which got me nowhere. It seems what I *should* have done is simply "thunderbird -ProfileManager" --- thus getting the "system" thunderbird which is a shell script living in /usr/bin. This invokes the proper command to take account of the "-ProfileManager" flag, whereas the executable /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird simply starts an instance of thunderbird and ignores any flags.
Consequently cd-ing *anywhere* is completely irrelevant. One can do "thunderbird -ProfileManager" from any location.
I would like to emphasize that in cd-ing to the profile directory, i.e. to .thunderbird/********.default I was following instructions that I was given elsewhere. These instructions were wrong and misleading.