On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:44:23PM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> I hope I'm not the only person seeing this...
> 
> For quite some months now, I've found that every time I start Thunderbird 
> it seems to forget that I've configured a profile and asked me to create a 
> new one again.
> 
> Still seeing it today on 4.99.42 amd64, any ideas?

Check the file permission in /usr/pkg/lib/thunderbird/defaults/profile
and the thunderbird files in $HOME (don't know where it is, maybe somewhere
under .mozilla). The file prefs.js needs to have write permission.
Maybe the other files under $HOME need the write permission too.

Bernd