profiles in Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird

[Matt Morgan]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:23:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram
<rahulsundaram at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> 
> > I know that this happens because of the presence of a lock file in the
> > TBird profile folder. If we delete the lock file, then Tbird will
> > begin to start normally. One potential solution is to write a new
> > shortcut that
> >
> > 1) finds the lock file and deletes it first, then
> > 2) starts Thunderbird.
> >
> > But this seems unclean. People might click it when Thunderbird is
> > already actually running, and I don't know what that might do.
> 
> 
> Please dont create workarounds like this. Just report the problem with
> all the technical details to mozilla's bugzilla if it isnt already
> reported. Just in case this problem has already been solved try the
> latest version of thunderbird first
> 
> regards
> Rahul Sundaram
> 

It turns out there is something called the "Profile Manager" that
should have a setting to say "always use this profile." Here's the bug
that led me to this, which is marked "resolved."

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218051

I haven't had a chance to try it, actually, but it looks like what I need.

Thanks,
Matt