thunderbird.. corrupt again

Safin

Safin

Forerunner
Of all the stupid things about tbd, this is 3rd time its happened... blame it on erratic power supply.. comp restarted and tbd profile is corrupt.

Anyway here is the detail:
Computer illegal shutdown.. after lights went.

main profile corrupted or was shown by tbd cos it started with a new profile creation wizard on next startup.

Although on checking the %appdata%/thunderbird/ folder the profile was there.

K so i copy it to another partition.
set up ini to that

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=E:\tbd\profile
default=1
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still not taking. going to new profile creation even now. Haven't tried an overwrite of thunderbird just yet.. might as well??

Came to this solution maybe
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Combining_two_profiles
and maybe this is the problem i guess
http://users.adelphia.net/~irwingreenwald/About Profiles.html#corrupt
~~on above i can't get the method to work.don't really have time to debug around.. hoping some of you fellas have solved this before ..

so help....... :no:
 
tried that...

still not taking

went to profile manager.. deleted the profiles.

created new with the old profile as path... it creates but throws a new account creation on startup again
 
Try this first, taken from your link

The program should be shut down (including Quick Launch) before creating a profile!

If you have installed the program by downloading and running an .exe file, then you can use the Start menu to Run the following command:

program-name.exe -p

where "program-name" is mozilla, seamonkey, firefox or thunderbird.

If you have installed using ZIP files, you will need to create a new shortcut and add " -p" (without the quotes but with the space) to the end of the execute line when you right click and ask for 'properties'.

In Profile Manager, click on the "Create" button. You will be asked to select a Name and PATH for the Profile. The PATH can be anywhere on your machine, but it is safest to use the default PATH. The NAME may be anything you choose except the ones shown when you first start Profile Manager.

Note: If you are creating a new profile because your old one was corrupted, you should set up your mail and newsgroup accounts in the same order they existed in your old profile before copying your data.
 
Note: If you are creating a new profile because your old one was corrupted, you should set up your mail and newsgroup accounts in the same order they existed in your old profile before copying your data.
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exactly the reason why i was avoiding that :D

looks like have to make accounts manually now
 
what about this

Registry.dat has been replaced by Profile.ini as the anchor point for finding profiles. It is an editable file.

Profiles created on first installation of these products adhere to the PATH, NAME, SALT conventions described above. Additional profiles created using the default PATH with a Different NAME will not be SALTed (i.e., there will be no xxxxxxxx.slt folder inserted before the data). Profiles created in a custom location (i.e, not on the default PATH) will need to specify the complete path to the data (i.e., the folder NAME will not be created). If you wish to "create" an existing profile, specify the complete path to it, including the .slt folder if it exists. In the last case it appears rhat the profile will be named "Default User".
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dunno..
just checked and found that all the inbox and folder files are blank in profile..
did scandisk delete them or what? :S

ahh nevermind the above

files are there.. trying another recovery manually
 
ok thank god.. its worked :D

here is what i did if someone wants to know later

had a old mozbackup copy.. 4 months old
imported that
then used the so called corrupt profile folders contents (mail folder) to replace mail folder of existing new profile.
and its worked.

hell me gonna dump tbd now

thanks dipdude btw.. :)
 
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