274507 - changes in setup not saved

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Heine Svendsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

Not sure this is a bug, but I think you should hear about it anyways.
I have Tbird installed on two different machines. I has started acting badly 
on one of them, forgetting the changes to the setup, I try to make. 
For instance replying to someone, it should remember the size and position of 
the compose window. It does, but next time I start it, the setting is gone and 
it opens my reply-email-window fully maximized. 
I have added a third account. It works as long as I don't shut the program 
down. Closing it and starting it again, I have to write the password to the 
account again. The account and it's folders are still there - probably because 
they were added before the problem occured the first time. 
If I open a lokal mailfolder by clicking at the + in front of it, it is closed 
again the next tine I run Tbird. 
I suspect that one of the kids have shot the computer dovn by pulling the plug 
and therefore damaged or write protected a setup file.

(5 hours later)
I've looked into some of the files in the Mozilla Profile Directory.
And found solutions to all of my problems, but not any answers, really.
1. I edited the [somenumber].s file by hand, adding the account name, and 
password. Now it remembers the password, but probably still can only be edited 
by hand. Curious thing: some of the words and signs where surrounded but 
lilttle square boxes. I tryed to remove them since they are missing in the 
same file on my other computer, but then the passwords didn't work.
2. I searhed the panacea.dat file and found errors in the addresses of 
folders. Everywhere this ....thunderbird\.... was instead written like 
this ...thunderbir\d.... actually there was also a new line after every 
backslash (\ newline d). I removed the wrongly placed backslashes and the new 
lines and saved, and now the account folders will remember if they are open or 
not.
3. I then took the localstore.rdf file and found the location for the position 
and size of the compose window. it said x=0 y=0 and xsize = 1400 and Ysyze= 
1017 or something of the kind. I changed it to something more apropriate and 
saved it. The compose window now opens in the size, I want it to. But whats 
really amazing is that now it can actually be changed and Tbird will remember 
the change! This could be because of the changing of the addresses of the 
folders in paragraph 2 above.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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