Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <snip> > Do you have evidence of this? If so, you should report it to BZ. it is well known in mozilla land that shutting down thunderbird improperly can/will/may, and sometimes not, cause corruption. primarily it is 2 files, panacea.dat and lock that need to be closed. in world of ms, there are many post of users not closing thunderbird properly and problems develop. problems are not being able to open thunderbird and corrupt email files. just how they are effected under linux by thunderbird being open and desktop is closed, i can not say. i do not recall a linux user with problems that happen with ms. possibly linux desktops have been written to scan for open programs and then send them a kill signal. just exactly what is going on under linux, i am not sure. then again, maybe not, because i do know that if i leave konqueror unclosed to maintain tabs that i have open, when i open kde anew, konqueror opens with tabs still set. if i forget to close firefox before closing kde desktop, when kde is open again and i open firefox, i get a prompt to clean up and then a prompt to open with previous state or new state. if i have a lock up with thunderbird open and have to <ctrl+del+backspace>, or use reset switch to recover, when i reboot, before opening thunderbird, i do open profile directory, which is one of tabs i have preset in konqueror, and i delete panacea.dat before i open thunderbird. if i had any emails open in any folder directory, i go to that directory and delete associated .msf file. i do this before i attempt to open thunderbird because i know that the potential to cause corruption is there. so i stay ahead of game, because doing so is not that much trouble and takes less that a minute to do so. i do know that i have yet to see lock file but i do check for it every time i have an improper closing of desktop. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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