Thunderbird resetting to defaults / How to know if Flatpaks come with pre-installed?
Hello, my Thunderbird is behaving very weirdly on my current Bazzite install, the columns get reset on every restart to default and message filters just disappear (I guess after restart as well, not sure).
Does TB come with Bazzite (like e.g. Kate does), how do I check this? (I think I installed it via Flatpak manually but can't remember), any idea what the problem might be? It kinda feels like a permission issue to me …
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thunderbird does not come with bazzite
Mh, so I did install it manually …
and all the settings for flatpak applications are in
~/.var/app might be worth looking there for permission issuesThat directory should be marked as writable / create somewhere in Flatpak permissions (e.g. via System Settings in KDE), right?
that directory is in your homefolder
and owned by your user
last modified date is 3 minuted ago, so it looks like tb can write into it …
can't tell if this is ok, but doesn't look weird to me …
yeah looks fine
i gave tb create access to the folder via flatpak system permissions but columns still get reset. i should probably do stuff like make a new tb profile or something … but i don't wanna set it all up again … maybe another day. thanks for trying to help ^__^
best test you can do would be to just close thunderbird and rename the folder for thunderbird
setup everything again and see if it happens still
if it does, restore the old folder (after closing thunderbird) and report it as a bug to the thunderbird devs
oh yeah, that's a good idea, thanks!
if anybody has similar problems in the future and (somehow) finds this: it looks like it was permissions in the end. i have my mails on a different partition and after i gave tb full access to those folders it looks like it's working now. even my message filters are all back magically (tb also seems to be crashing a lot which i haven't seen in a while, hope that's not a whole new problem now)