You have launched an older version of Thundebird 115.13.0 Debian 12
Hi guys, an automatic update seem to have made my Thunderbird Flatpak unusable. I have literally thousands of Emails in several Accounts as POP3 and need to access them. Suddenly since today I get the error message "You have launched an older version of Thunderbird" (Create New Profile) (Quit). Both choices are not acceptable for me. Any ideas what I can do? Any help is appreciated!
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Solved the problem myself. But maybe I am not the only one affected by this Problem, so here is what I did. I tracked down my Thunderbird-Profile on my Debian PC: .var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxxx.default
Started Firefox and clicked (Create New Profile). Set a random profile and waited for a new xxxxxxxxx.default folder to be created in .var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/.
Copied the old profile into the new folder - overwrite everything.
Restart Thunderbird. VOILA!
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I am unsure on what you're saying. A new version was installed and you receive message that you're using an older version? Please clarify this, as they seem contradictory. Please also check what version you are using from help>about menu. thank you.
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I am unsure on what you're saying. A new version was installed and you receive message that you're using an older version? Please clarify this, as they seem contradictory. Please also check what version you are using from help>about menu. thank you.
Hi, the Thunderbird Version that is installed now is 115.13.0. My Debian pulls the updates automatically. I did not downgrade anything. Now since yesterday I receive the above message and can't open Thunderbird anymore. Does that answer your question?
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Solved the problem myself. But maybe I am not the only one affected by this Problem, so here is what I did. I tracked down my Thunderbird-Profile on my Debian PC: .var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxxx.default
Started Firefox and clicked (Create New Profile). Set a random profile and waited for a new xxxxxxxxx.default folder to be created in .var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/.
Copied the old profile into the new folder - overwrite everything.
Restart Thunderbird. VOILA!
I had the same problem on a Windows 10 PC. I installed what I thought was the latest Thunderbird from clicking a link on the Thunderbird website. It said it was going to install v. 135 but it actually installed v. 115.12.2, I found later. I have four Thunderbird profiles. Three of them worked OK but one did not, giving the message that I was using an old version. I checked the compatibility.ini files for each profile. The three that worked were correct but the profile that no longer worked had the wrong version - it said the last version was 128. (The compatibility.ini files are in AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles.) Why did it do that, and only on one of the profiles???? Anyway, I just deleted that compatibility.ini file and everything is fine now as it created a new compatibility.ini file when I next used that profile..
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