Comments on: Thunderbird 3 Released

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:26:47 +0000

Hello,

I downloaded the bata version of Lightning for Thunderbird 3. I am getting a load error because of fire fox I am using V 3.5.6. This is the latest version of FireFox and I can’t seem to clear the error. Any advise?

Randy

By: Doug H

Doug H — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:05:19 +0000

I upgraded to T3 and was also disappointed by the incompatibility with Lightning. I do not want to use a nightly build of Lightning so I am using Sunbird for now. To import my existing calendar into Sunbird I did the following:

Installed Sunbird and ran it to create a profile, then exited Sunbird.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/#applications

Using Windows explorer, went to the Sunbird profile folder** and renamed storage.sdb to _storage.sdb, then went to my Thunderbird profile folder and COPIED storage.sdb to the Sunbird profile.

Restarted Sunbird and my calendar appears.

When Lightning is released for T3, I will copy storage.sdb from Sunbird back to Thunderbird or if it is incompatible, I will export from Sunbird and Import to Lightning. It won’t be incompatible but it might.

** So, where are Profile folders?
In XP, look in
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Sunbird\Profiles
and
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Profiles

For newer versions of Windows, look in C:\Users\AppData and you may need to show hidden files. In XP, it is Menu Bar->Tools->Options->Folder Options->View Tab->”Show Hidden Files and Folders”

By: NewDoc

NewDoc — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:45:54 +0000

gdf, I get the same message. Frustrating; I want to use the entire Mozilla suite, but I need the integration of calendar with messaging. Wonder if it has anything to do with Windows 7?

By: gdf

gdf — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:27:05 +0000

I just tried to install the lighting add-on above, but I get the message below:

Lightning 0.9 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Thunderbird 3.0

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