On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 18:45 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup > Nevermind :) Found the backups in /var/lib/gdm3 > Didn't realize that's where GDM would put them. A GDM script can't put ~/.thunderbird.backup in /var/lib/gdm3, since the path ~/ belongs to /home/user_account, resp. /root. You must have done something wrong.