Re: upgrade from thunderbird 0.7.x to 0.8 in unstable

[Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>]

Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just want to warn every unstable user, that the upgrade from 0.7.x to
> 0.8 is not without pain. Even if you have no plugins or extensions
> installed (by yourself), after the upgrade Thunderbird can't see any
> mails, etc.
>
> You have to move your old prefs directory away and start over from zero
> to get all things running.
You need to remove the compreg.dat file in your profile to fix this 
without pain.
I will upload a new package soon that makes the 0.7-> 0.8 transition 
completely painless.

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