I've done the same with KDE profiles, Thunderbird profiles and
others .. seems they're very picky about having the whole lot
perfect and are not in the slightest fault-tolerant, leading to a
total-loss scenario when things go wrong.
Glad to hear you're working again!
Best regards,
Michael.
On 02/10/17 19:34, Julian Hall wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thank you for the offer, I have now resolved the problem with
brute force and ignorance. I renamed .thunderbird to
oldthunderbird and replaced .thunderbird in its entirety from the
backup. Then I copied the abook.mab, and the whole Mail folder
from oldthunderbird into .thunderbird. That worked to give me my
mail all up to date and working address book. I still have no idea
what the problem was but it was obviously something other than the
address book itself.
Kind regards,
Julian
On 02/10/17 14:46, M. J. Everitt
wrote:
Have you looked to see whether there are any perl/python scripts
which will parse the db file - is it a sqlite one, in which
case, if you're willing I could have a hack at it, if you're not
bothered about the data within it... Clearly Tbird itself has a
zero-tolerance policy!
I do also have a former mozilla developer friend who might be
able to shed some light on it .. perhaps you could send the
troublesome file over to my personal address (above) if you feel
happy with that.
Cheers,
Michael.
On 02/10/17 14:10, Julian Hall
wrote:
Hi Simon,
Thanks for the reply. /home is now reporting 119Gb free so
that's resolved. The more pressing issue now is the loss of my
address book; when I say loss I mean it's still there, all
176k of it, but Thunderbird will only read the Collected
Addresses which is baffling. Creating a new profile hasn't
resolved it as I cannot load a Thunderbird address book into
Thunderbird and Export says it will only export the Collected
Addresses.
Kind regards,
Julian
On 02/10/17 11:45, Simon Avery
wrote:
Hi
Running out of root space is never a fun thing to
deal with.
On Nemo not allowing you to delete anything - this
may be because it runs a recycle/trash bin affair.
Actually rm the files from the command line to free up
that space instantly. (Although sometimes if root's full
you can't spawn any new processes, and odd things can
happen like the OS not reporting free space once you
delete the files).
As you've found, booting from a live cd if you have
physical access, then mounting the root filesystem and
selectively deleting a few megs/gigs is usually the
easiest way.Â
S
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