Thunderbird moved after update / profile and mails gone

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Hello, I am using Kubuntu 24.04.2 LTS on a Lenovo T470. After a regular installation of updates via Discover two days ago, thunderbird can no longer be started via the icon in the window bar (message: KDE -Plasma workspace: The file or folder /snap/thunderbird/644/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin does not exist).

I can then start thunderbird via the menu (the location now appears to be /snap/bin/thunderbird), but the profile and all mails have disappeared, as if I had reinstalled thunderbird.

The Personal folder/snap/thunderbird folder contains the folders 721, 734, common and current. Only common has something, but very little content (25 MB).

Sure, I can/could now simply set up my profile again (no problem thanks to imap-server), but I find this behaviour strange and have to ask myself whether it happens again and again.

Could any of you tell me what’s going on?

Thank you!

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Sounds like an issue with the Snap version of Thunderbird.

You probably need to report this at Kubuntu or Ubuntu

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And for what it’s worth, some folks have asked this over at Ask Ubuntu, with some success: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1506802/updating-thunderbird-from-apt-to-snap-removed-my-config

(I had to do this myself when I was using Ubuntu :slight_smile: )

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Okay, thank you. I can do that, but where exactly?