On 20/12/11 10:47, George Olson wrote:

Howdy again,

I just made a new install of 12.1 from the dvd. I was previously using 11.4. I was already using KDE 4.7.2, and so I am still using it.

There was a bit of a mix up on my home directory, and the install disk installed the new KDE in a different directory because of my username change. But I switch back to my old KDE directory, which was located in /home/george by modifying the /etc/passwd file to point to that directory instead of the separate installation. By doing this, I was able to get back most of my KDE settings.

However, when I try to start thunderbird from a panel, I get the following error:

Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:///usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop does not exist.

I have 11.4 installed on sda5 and 12.1 installed on sda6. When I boot up in 11.4, I have no problem running thunderbird.

I understand that the /usr/share/applications is in my root directory, so that is why thunderbird will run in 11.4 and not in 12.1. However, I am wondering how to setup thunderbird in 12.1 now, and not lose all the settings that I had for it before?

Thanks G

Hmm, you've made a bit of a hash of this and made some additional complications for yourself haven't you? But all resolvable. Thunderbird stores its data (mail, your settings etc) in the directory /home/<ur-name>/.thunderbird [NOTE that this is a HIDDEN directory (there's a full stop in front of it)] Why you cannot run TB is because you don't have it installed as this new "user". Install TB under your new name adn then copy over the /.thunderbird directory to your new home. BC -- It is easy to convince people of something, but hard to keep them convinced. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org