Thunderbird trouble

[Stephen]

awesome info, thanks!

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sharing this in the event the information may be helpful to someone
> else.
>
> Today for the first time since I had the problems with loosing my windows
> installation, I opened thunderbird and tried to use its chat option.  The
> settings for a facebook chat account I use were gone.
>
> Then I went through the procedure to create a new account.  I entered all
> the required information and clicked the enter button, but nothing happened.
> Here's how I fixed it.
>
> I backed up everything in my profile directory.  Then I deleted everything
> except the mail directory.  Next I started thunderbird.  First it recreated
> a bunch of file in the empty directory.  Then it asked me if I wanted to set
> up a mail account.  I closed that wizard and tried to set up the chat
> account.  I was able to.
>
> I went to this site
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Files_and_folders_in_the_profile_-_Thunderbird
> where there's a list of the files in a thunderbird profile directory and
> what they do.
> From the backup directory I copied the files that contain the saved
> addresses (abook.mab and history.mab), passwords(key3.db and Signons.sqlite)
> and prefs.js which the site said contains all the mail server settings.
>
> When I started thunderbird, my email accounts were there and so was the chat
> account.  It also let me add a new account.   I looked inside prefs.js and
> saw the settings for the chat account.  This tells me while prefs.js stores
> the account information, some other file is needed for existing chat
> accounts to be visible and new ones to be created.
>
> Goodnight
>
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