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using Mandrake and having problems with both Firefox and Thunderbird.
They failed to open once and then I got a pop up about default is already
in use in both programs. I ran the top command and can't find it running
and have rebooted twice, still the same thing. Looking it up on the net
it says to delete the parent.lock file but I can't find it. I need to get
my profile for thunderbird back at least to get my mail.
Thanks in advance

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:35:39 GMT, chad <> wrote:

>using Mandrake and having problems with both Firefox and Thunderbird.
>They failed to open once and then I got a pop up about default is already
>in use in both programs. I ran the top command and can't find it running
>and have rebooted twice, still the same thing. Looking it up on the net
>it says to delete the parent.lock file but I can't find it. I need to get
>my profile for thunderbird back at least to get my mail.
>Thanks in advance

Can't really help...I don't know enuf Linux. May just be that Firefox
was mainly for Windows (sad, but the way of the World).

On 2004-12-12, chad <> wrote:

> using Mandrake and having problems with both Firefox and Thunderbird.
> They failed to open once and then I got a pop up about default is already
> in use in both programs. I ran the top command and can't find it running
> and have rebooted twice, still the same thing. Looking it up on the net
> it says to delete the parent.lock file but I can't find it. I need to get
> my profile for thunderbird back at least to get my mail.

It's in your profile directory -- eg:

~/.thunderbird/default/wv8vpehc.slt/lock
~/.mozilla/firefox/default.649/lock

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John ()

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:07:36 +0000, john wrote:

> On 2004-12-12, chad <> wrote:
>
>> using Mandrake and having problems with both Firefox and Thunderbird.
>> They failed to open once and then I got a pop up about default is already
>> in use in both programs. I ran the top command and can't find it running
>> and have rebooted twice, still the same thing. Looking it up on the net
>> it says to delete the parent.lock file but I can't find it. I need to get
>> my profile for thunderbird back at least to get my mail.
>
> It's in your profile directory -- eg:
>
> ~/.thunderbird/default/wv8vpehc.slt/lock
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.649/lock
This worked great thanks that Parent.lock must be for windows I was
searching for it and nothing all it was was lock@.
Thanks