🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:18:00 +0100, Will Kemp wrote:

> On 08/05/2009 03:07 AM, BrianM wrote:
>> Running Mandriva, KDE, KPPP, dialup connection.
>>
>> Getting timed out when downloading email with photo attachments. Have
>> checked every possible setting in Thunderbird and KPPP to disable any
>> limiters.
> 
> It doesn't seem very likely that it's thunderbird causing it (although it
> could be). I've been using thunderbird for quite some time now and
> received lots of emails with sometimes quite large photo attachments and
> i've never had that problem.
> 
>> Final solution is to remove and reinstall either my profile in
>> .Thunderbird or whole program.
> 
> That's a windows-style approach and it's probably not going to fix it.
> 
>> Before I do this, I want to save my address book file. Could someone
>> please advise me what the file extension letters are, and what folder
>> they are in?.  Appreciated  :-)
> 
> I dunno about mandriva, but on fedora it's all in ~/.thunderbird . But if
> you open the address book and click on the 'Tools' menu item and then
> 'Export', you can save your address book in your home directory and then
> import it after you've reinstalled.
> 
>> p.s. this problem has only occurred since downloading updated
>> Thunderbird.
> 
> Perhaps you should try reverting to the previous version.

Thanks Will