Re: TBird Issues for Midrange

Scott,

Thanks. I did look under the processes tab of Task Manager. There wasn't
anything that even vaguely looked like thunderbird.exe.

Your plan of action is generally what I thought about trying this weekend (I
don't have access to the PC during the week). I had not thought about
searching the registry, but I'll do that, too.

I have saved my address list as both an LDIF and cvs file so I should be
able to import one or the other - if everything else works. As someone at
Mozilla Support suggested, restoring the saved profile might be a waste - if
the issue is in the profile. I do have TBird on another PC, which is
working. I have also thought about porting that profile to the PC with the
problem and restoring it to the PC with the issue.

I hope something works this weekend. I'd sure hate to go backwards to
Outlook Express or to Outlook. Of course, I could always search for Eudora!

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 1:48 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] TBird Issues for Midrange

Hi Jerry,

On 10/10/2011 7:45 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

Couldn't find it in the Task Manager's "Applications" tab
and have no idea what it might be in the "Processes" tab (certainly

nothing

intuitive). (Side note: I ran TBird on another computer and it shows up

in

the "Application" tab.)

I never rely on the "Applications" tab. (Indeed, I find that tab pretty
much useless.) Instead, use the "Processes" tab, click on the "Image
name" column to sort by the program name, and look for anything named
"thunderbird.exe"

Anyway, I re-booted the PX (XP Pro at SP3). Still telling me that TBird

is

already running. So I restored the profile from the MozBackup. TBird

loads

- but the @#$% "Sending Message..." progress box keeps says "Status:
Attaching" and won't go away.

I've never seen this problem, and I use Thunderbird constantly. Not
sure what else to try, except perhaps this:

1) Delete all profiles (via profile manager)
2) Uninstall Thunderbird
3) Delete C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird (if it exists)
4) Delete C:\Documents and Settings\-you-\Application Data\Thunderbird
for any users on the system.
5) Search the registry for anything containing thunderbird. Delete these.
6) Reboot
7) Reinstall Thunderbird.