Joho the Blog
An Entry from the Archives

« Violate copyright? $150,000. Violate free speech? $0. || Back to Blog | [berkman] Gene Koo on tech, law and legal ed »

May 21, 2007

Thunderbird not saving preferences

Thunderbird v.2.0.0.0 has decided to stop storing preferences such as which columns I want displayed and what I want shown in the tool bar. I have tried changing the permissions on the files in Docs & Settings > App Data > Thunderbird (in XP), but that does not seem to be the problem.

Any suggestions?

Got an answer at MozillaZine. Window display preferences seem to be stored in localstore.rdf, which is in the particular profile folder (e.g., in Windows, it'd be C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\ Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\WEIRDNUMBEREDPROFILE\localstore.rdf. (Adjust the all caps parts to your particular environment.) Close Thunderbird and delete (or rename) localstore.rdf. Open Thunderbird, and make your changes. A new copy of localstore.rdf will be automatically generated. Ta-da!

Posted by D. Weinberger at May 21, 2007 01:21 PM

Post a comment

Guidelines for Commenting

Basically, you can say what you want. (Click here for the fine print.)

If you haven't left a comment here before, your comment may be put into a queue for me to approve. Sorry for the delay. Blame the damn spammers.