Might I suggest, if you did it another way, to use rsync next time?
This is how I copy it without ever having such an issue:
Code:
rsync -av /server1/silas/mingdao/.thunderbird/ /home/mingdao/.thunderbird/
And if ~/.thunderbird/ is not on your destination, leave off the trailing / (slash)
from the origin. The "a" preserves the file attributes (probably where you messed up),
and the "v" makes it verbose, so you see everything in stdout.
Hope this helps in the future. Edit this thread as [SOLVED] -- can you do that, or
must you report and ask a moderator to do that?