On 04/23/2014 08:51 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/23/14 19:40, linuxnutster(a)videotron.ca wrote:
> I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well except for
some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving me a pile of weird permission
errors and disk space errors. There is 215GB free space, so I know that is not the
problem. Obviously this has somethign to do with the permissions on the .thunderbird
folder, but I do not have the knoweldge to rectify the problem. Could somebody kindly
nudge me in the right direction?
>
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Since fedup doesn't muck with user files, it is doubtful to be a permission issue on
your ~/.thunderbird directory. Everything under that directory will be owned by your
username. Certainly you can ensure that the files are owned by your username by
doing....
chown -R username:usergroup ~/.thunderbird (using the appropriate values)
You'd be much better served to actually post the actual error messages you are
getting as opposed to people assuming what you're seeing and then making suggestions
based on assumptions that may not be valid.
I checked the backup copy I made of .thunderbird before upgrading and
the permissions were not the same. I then changed the permissions on the
upgraded folder using info found on mozilla forums, etc... with no
change. The solution seems to be to delete all the folders, sub-folders,
and message filters and rebuild them. I also was extremely pressed for
time, and sent in the email extremely quickly before I could include the
exact message errors. I apologize for the omission(s).