Hello There,

Usually I have my Thunderbird profile stored on a ntfs disk mounted as /mnt/....

I do that to share this profile with Thunderbird / Windows.

Since Thunderbird come as snap packages I have serious problems with this system. I never have problem doing that with Kubuntu before.

He forget language settings between each use and the toolbar cant be configured (menu entry is grey) and so on (there is a lot of ubiquitous errors if I launch it from console)...

Even with no explicit error message about that I strongly suspect that this come from restricted access rights on the profile folder / files because if I move the same profile onto my home directory everything go smoothly.

Is there something to do to get / improve Thunderbird access to mounted ntfs directory ?

Thanks for the help and regards.
Philippe

Get a normal version here https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/

Thanks for the link.

I know I can use traditional packages but I want to try to stay in the Kubuntu way.
These kinds of solutions are efficient but increase the work at each upgrade so I use only in case of lost of hope... Which is not the stage I am right now !

Is there a solution to improve the situation using Thunderbird snap package ?

Not really. Theoretically system upgrade may break some dependencies, but not in these case - this repo serves official mozilla binaries wrapped into apts, and these are very sturdy and run almost on anything, so the the package remains installed and keeps on working. Ubuntu upgrade disables 3d-party repos and you have to re-enable them, but this is true for all repos, not just this one, so this step has to be done anyway. Of course, you will be force-fed snap and have to purge it again, but that's a single command. Not that much to do once in a couple of years.

If there is, I wouldn't know it. I deal with snap... differently.

I read here and there that some modifications should be done into apt configuration files in order to avoid automatic re installation of thunderbird / firefox snap.

Are the packages coming from this ppa taking care of that ?

Thanks and regards.
Philippe