[CentOS] Thunderbird Revision Issues

Sat May 23 15:58:19 UTC 2020
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

On 5/22/20 12:28 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> CentOS 6 has Thunderbird 68.8.0
> CentOS 8 has Thunderbird 68.7.0
>
> When I rsync my .thunderbird folder from my CentOS 6 machine to my 
> CentOS 8 machine and start Thunderbird it says:
>
> "A newer version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your
> profile which are no longer compatible with this older version.
> Use this profile only with that newer version, or create a new profile 
> for this installation of Thunderbird.  Creating a new profile requires 
> setting up your accounts, calendars and add-ons again."
>

I think I encountered the same thing when trying to go from CentOS 7 to 
CentOS 8.

I'm pretty sure I ended up invoking thunderbird manually with the 
--allow-downgrade option.  After it was satisfied with my copied 
profile, it would then subsequently run OK with a normal invocation 
(using the desktop icon, etc.)

-Greg