Thunderbird 38.3.0 updates
The 38.3.0 update fails on my Acer Aspire laptop. Until very recently the laptop was a Windows 7 64 bit machine and has run Thunderbird ever since I bought it in 2012 and always updated it without issue. I recently upgraded the laptop to Windows 10 with Thunderbird 38.2.0 installed. I have tried the various workarounds on the support page to no avail and the update has failed multiple times.
I have a newly bought HP Notebook laptop which had Windows 8.1. I installed Thunderbird 38.2.0 and subsequently upgraded the laptop to Windows 10. On that laptop the 38.3.0 update installed under Windows 10 with no problem at all.
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That does appear to have solved the issue. Help|About now indicates the current version as 38.3.0. After running the installer and restarting Thunderbird I was still asked to allow a Thunderbird update to 38.3.0 after closing and then restarting Thunderbird. Entering NO did not prevent the question being asked at restart so I entered YES, the update failed (obviously as the installer had done it already) indicating that a partial update was unsuccessful and that the server would be contacted for a full update. That window hung forever with some apparent disk activity which after 15 minutes or so I perceived to be nothing useful and then closed. Restarting Thunderbird since then I do appear to be running version 38.3.0 normally so I guess the problem is solved although I do wonder what will happen the next time an update is due !!!
Thanks for the help which is appreciated.
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You can download the full installer from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all/ and run it.
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That does appear to have solved the issue. Help|About now indicates the current version as 38.3.0. After running the installer and restarting Thunderbird I was still asked to allow a Thunderbird update to 38.3.0 after closing and then restarting Thunderbird. Entering NO did not prevent the question being asked at restart so I entered YES, the update failed (obviously as the installer had done it already) indicating that a partial update was unsuccessful and that the server would be contacted for a full update. That window hung forever with some apparent disk activity which after 15 minutes or so I perceived to be nothing useful and then closed. Restarting Thunderbird since then I do appear to be running version 38.3.0 normally so I guess the problem is solved although I do wonder what will happen the next time an update is due !!!
Thanks for the help which is appreciated.