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Thunderbird 128.6 Kubuntu 24.04

I have a problem that seems to originate with the "snapification" of thunderbird.

I use an addon called "localfolders" when I am traveling to contain a USB copy of my e-mail archive. Sadly now with snap, every time I reboot my laptop the USB stick gets accessed at a different location. An example would be "/run/user/1000/doc/66d959d8/my archived email.sbd" where 66d959d8 is valid only until the laptop is rebooted.

The USB stick of course has a unique ID which is used by Ubuntu in the mount, so it always gets mounted as "/media/userid/stickid" (userid and stickid are numbers based on my user and my stick but I don't know how to put "variable" brackets in this text without them being zeroed out).

However when I try and access the USB stick with thunderbird, despite specifying a location of "/media/user/stickid" thunderbird restarts and accesses the stick as "/run/user/1000/doc/66d959d8/"

Anybody know a way to fix this, how to stop this number, in this example 66d959d8, being changed every time the system is rebooted?

Wombatch
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Welcome to ASK.

You should make sure you have a backup of your Thunderbird profile before doing anything else.

You may be able access removable media with a snap flag.

Using the following command...

snap connections thunderbird

If this results is some like...

removable-media         thunderbird:removable-media         -         -

Then try the following:

snap connect thunderbird:removable-media

...and check the status again...

snap connections thunderbird

Which should show...

removable-media         thunderbird:removable-media         :removable-media         manual

That should let you mount your profile under /media/{accountname}/XXXX-XXXX

(the /media is for Ubuntu) It might be different for other flavours

the XXXX-XXXX is the USB label which should remain the same.

This should remain set but possibly may be needed to be repeated when the Thunderbird snap is refreshed (updated).

david
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