Closed Bug 430782 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

missing user profile directory is reported as "Thunderbird instance already running"

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278860

People

(Reporter: bensler, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: 20080213

see below

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I have my Thunderbird user profile located on a removable flash drive. Sometimes when I start Thunderbird I forgot to plugin my flash drive. 
Actual Results:  
I get an error message like "A Thunderbird apllication is already running but cannot be connected" (I get a german error message and I tried to translate it)

Expected Results:  
An error message like "Cannot find user profile directory /some/where".

I guess creating a lock file failed and this event is prematurely interpreted as "profile is already in use by another application instance".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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