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1. THUNDERBIRD PORTABLE CRASHING PARENT.LOCK HOW TO
2. THUNDERBIRD PORTABLE CRASHING PARENT.LOCK INSTALL
3. THUNDERBIRD PORTABLE CRASHING PARENT.LOCK UPDATE

Note that you have to make sure that the server-named folder inside Mail has the correct server name. Retrieve old mail by deleting the newly installed Mail folder and copying the old Mail folder in its place. Back up TB, remove the known copy, locate any other copies and remove them, reinstall TB.ģA. Constant Thunderbird crashes can be due to it attempting to open a corrupt mail file every time it opens.ģ. Constant Thunderbird crashes can be due to it colliding with another copy of itself every time it opens. I'm going to close this one out also, because I think we've learned everything we can here.ġ. mbox file or such, but I'd like to salvage as much as possible. I suspect it may have to do with a corrupt. Thirty seconds later, TB crashed, and returned to its original behavior. old Mail folder, went inside, and renamed the mailserver folder to match the new mailserver name.

Here's everything that wasn't in nothing looked like an executable, I left all alone, and just reinstalled TB.įought with this for a while, during which TB was stable but uncooperative, due to my ineptness.įinally, based on advice on another question I asked about recovering the files, I deleted the old account, created a new one, and deleted the Mail folder under the.

THUNDERBIRD PORTABLE CRASHING PARENT.LOCK HOW TO

(1) How to keep TB from crashing, and (2) how to recover my old emails.įollowing the instructions in the current thread solved (1). But it's the safest bet there is.I had two problems. Depending on how many mail folders, filters and extensions you have, and how strongly your settings differed from the vanilla out-of-the-box version, this may take frustratingly long.

THUNDERBIRD PORTABLE CRASHING PARENT.LOCK INSTALL

Officially, incompatible extensions shouldn't install in the first place, but there's no guarantee. It's possible that an extension is incompatible with the newest version. If it doesn't, launch Thunderbird in safe mode and remove it. After installing each extension, restart to see if it'll launch. You will also have to restore all your preferences, filters, extensions etc. If it doesn't help either, just make a fresh start and just copy your mail files into the new portable folder.

THUNDERBIRD PORTABLE CRASHING PARENT.LOCK UPDATE

(It definitely wasn't connected with an update in my case.) To make sure, you may "install" an older version over the current one and just see what happens. I haven't heard any reports that problem is connected with the newest version or occurring more often with the newest version. PS: I'll be traveling for most of the next 36 hrs or so, so I won't be able to respond to any replies quickly.

I hope someone here has an idea what to do about this and/or how to restore my archived messages which I totally depend on. I copied the TP folder to another computer (I'm normally using it from my local harddisk), where the symptoms are only slightly different: The main window appears for one or two seconds without showing any accounts or e-mail, then the standard XP crash dialogue appears offering to report the problem to Microsoft. it starts showing the splash screen and terminates after one or two seconds without even showing the main window. I'm not sure this is the cause of the problem, but I have no idea what else could be.Īfter that, TP refused to start again. I had one obsolete POP account that I deleted the usual way (Tools > Account settings > Remove account).

After using Thunderbird Portable under XP Professional for a few month without any problems, I ran into some SERIOUS trouble now.