How Do You Fix Mozilla Thunderbird Not Starting?
How to Fix Mozilla Thunderbird Not Starting Saturday January 16, 2010 “The duck,” Goethe noted, “lacking feathers, looked like a skeleton, ate the oat with gusto still but had digestive problems.” The duck, seen by Goethe in so sorry a state, was Vaucanson’s famous mechanical masterpiece. More than 1,000 movable parts allowed the artificial animal to move, eat grain and digest it, too. Today, the duck is, unfortunately, lost. You can see a replica of sorts in Grenoble’s Musee des automates, though. Mozilla Thunderbird is still here, of course; like Vaucanson’s duck, it contains hundreds of gears and springs and rods, any o
“Thunderbird is already running, but not responding. To open a new window you must close the existing thunderbird process, or restart your system.” Which, of course, you have already tried — to no avail. If Mozilla Thunderbird refuses to start and complains about another instance or a profile in use instead, the cause may be a stale profile lock left from a crashing instance of Mozilla Thunderbird, for example. You can remove the file that locks your profile and try to get Mozilla Thunderbird starting again. Fix Mozilla Thunderbird Not Starting To help Mozilla Thunderbird start when it displays “Thunderbird is already running, but not responding” or opens the profile manager stating your profile is “in use”: • Make sure no Mozilla Thunderbird process is running: • In Windows, kill all “thunderbird” processes in Task Manager. • Using Mac OS X, force quit all “thunderbird” processes in Activity Monitor. • Under Unix, use “killal
