No one on the list apart from you can tell if your hope comes true...
;-)
did they ?
I hope so, but as always: no backup more "fun" !
at least it will burn in FOR EVER to always take backups BEFORE doing any task which could
touch important user data.
if your hope came full true:
remove the new ~/.thunderbird and restore your backup-ed .thunderbird
save it before removing !
maybe there's something in which could be useful.
cause my upgrade weeks ago with the elder thunderbird didn't change anything regarding
~/.thunderbird.
maybe your hope became "half true" and only a new profile dir was created beside
the old one ???
then ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini could be your friend.
sixpack13,
a proven super-user who scratched and hand-sorted ~150000 files after the installer
decided to install on an still connected usb backup disk.
in short: I had a backup, but not that long. :)
fun, fun, fun, for 3 weeks opening/sorting files by hand ...
pulling unnecessary cable is burnt in too.