In trying to do a new install of Tbird, the program picked up bad info from an earlier install. I uninstalled Tbird 3 and am now unable to reinstall. The icon appears on the desktop but I get "this program is already running. Close the program or restart"
Restarting or a cold boot has no effect. I have been through the Task Manager and it is not showing Tbird. I have googled the problem but the only suggestions I can find are 'close the program or restart.
Edit: I have also searched the computer for the parent.lock file for Tbird and cannot find one.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Bill
Perhaps this MS utility may help,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/
I used this to cleanup a failed install of i-tunes as referenced in this thread.
http://www.poasters.com/index.php?topic=15412.0
Thanks Pat. What I have done in the meantime is install an older version (2.0) and that worked. I am at least now able to download mail.
After I get this version set up correctly I think I might try an update via Tbird to ver.3, maybe.
Bill
Thanks John, I know. Just not as convenient!
For the moment, I will work with ver 2.0.
Bill
Pat,
It tried to use the Installer Utility you poasted. I got as far as the dialog showing programs. Thunderbird wasn't listed. Is there a way to add programs to the shown list? It also only displayed programs for All Users, not me.
Bill
Only thing I can think of is the thunderbird probgram doesn't use the window's installer.
JA,
I am reluctant, at this point, to do a Registry clean. I just got the thing running reasonably well! But I will keep it in mind.
I am even reluctant to do a Tbird upgrade to ver. 3 because it may have a conflict with whatever is 'running' left from ver 3 I uninstalled.
Bill
JA,
I have tried both CC Cleaner and CARE, neither found Tbird ver. 3. Maybe your supposition that installing an earlier version eliminated the newer one was right. I have just discovered that Ver.3 uses a different file format to save emails than does Ver.2x. And while ver. 3 will convert the older files, the opposite is not true. Guess I will try an upgrade to Ver. 3 tomorrow.
Bill
I expect, eventually to reunite all of them into a new working version of Tbird; just don't ask me 'when'.
Bill
Before I started all this 'mess', I copied my entire Tbird Profile to a flash stick. What I was thinking, if the upgrade to ver.3 takes, is to import the whole Profile (made in ver 3) into the new install. Now I don't recall if Profile Manager exists in ver.3 or if you can actually import a Profile. Guess I'll go find out.
Bill
Mission accomplished!!!
I downloaded an upgrade to ver.3 using the 'check for updates' option in Ver.2 which worked.
After much searching I found an Extension named ImportExport Tools which installed in Ver.3
This extension is available at: http://tinyurl.com/ydc4fdc
And there are a decent set of instructions at the bottom of this thread but the tool file that is referenced is out of date:
http://tinyurl.com/yek3j3a
It's a tedious process and you must follow the instructions carefully BUT this extension allowed me to merge old mail with current mail and salvage all my old mail folders, and message filters.
Amen! Now I can get on with the rest of Win 7.
Bill