Comment 82 for bug 1244619

On 11/01/2013 12:25 PM, C2e9b7 wrote:
> Hi,
> I had the same problem, and still had it with 24.1.0. Then I found this workaround which solves the problem. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
> a. mv ~/.thunderbird in ~/.thunderbird.old
> b. update thunderbird (I had to do it as root)
> c. run the new version of thunderbird (as user), skipping all the suggestions to create an email account
> d. install lightning (I also installed google calendar provider; you may need to reinstall more)
> e. restart thunderbird
> f. copied back everithing from ~/.thunderbird.old/<some random string> ~/.thunderbird to the new ~/.thunderbird/<some other random string> besides the following:
> _CACHE_CLEAN_ chrome extensions extensions.ini TestPilotExperimentFiles
>
> Note that I COPIED and not MOVED them back, because in case of problems I wanted to be able to delete the new ~/.thunderbird directory without losing anything. Maybe I could have copied back some more file, but everything seems to work.
> So in my opinion, there is some file left from old installs in those directories, that disturbs the new version of Lightning. Anyway, now everything works fine for me
>
Thank you for taking the time to give me this information.

I may resort to doing it that way.

I currently don't use the calendar feature a great deal, so I'm hoping
within a month or two there will be an update from the repository that
will fix it.

If it goes too long, I will make good use of the excellent information
you took the time to put together and send me.

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Sincerely,
Aere