Migration from ESR to Release channel failed on macOS case-sensitive file system
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: nad, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15
Steps to reproduce:
Installed Thunderbird Release channel on macOS system with existing ESR release installation. Launching the new Thunderbird failed to find previous profile (settings, erc.). The macOS system is installed on a case-sensitive APFS file system rather than a default case-insensitive one.
Migrating from 128.11.0esr (20250522210530) to 139.0.2 (20250606205843)
Actual results:
Searching in ~/Library, I discovered that the new Thunderbird from the release channel had created and was searching in ~/Library/thunderbird (lower-case T) whereas the previous profile from the ESR version was located in ~/Library/Thunderbird (upper-case T). On default case-insensitive macOS file systems this would not be noticed but it does make a difference on case-sensitive installations.
Expected results:
The workaround is to delete ~/Library/thunderbird and either create a symlink from ~/Library/Thunderbird or rename ~/Library/Thunderbird to ~/Library/thunderbird. With that done and relaunching Thunderbird, the old profile was found and Thunderbird behaved as expected.
That's been back to uppercase, effective from TB 140, see bug 1971216.
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Comment 2•2 months ago
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@ned-daily, thanks for reporting this. Please let us know if there are any issues once 140 is available.
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