Barry Garsson
Barry
I recently purchased my 2nd Mac (Mini) and want to use Firefox and Thunderbird as I did with my old OS. I downloaded & installed both, but whenever I restart the computer I find one or the other is gone.
Yesterday it was Thunderbird. The profile folders were where they should be but the program itself was no longer on either the desktop or the dock. I used the "find" function but couldn't locate it. I downloaded a new copy, and found all of my settings and mail folders were in place (guess that was because the profile folder was untouched?). But I have no idea why the executable file should have been missing. Did I do something wrong when shutting down?
This morning it was Firefox. The icon was in the dock, but when I tried clicking on it to open it, it was dead. I went to "Finder -> applications -> Firefox" and received a message about an "alias" that needed to be deleted or fixed. I tried "fixing" it but had no idea what it wanted me to do, deleting the alias wiped out the icon into the trash.
I had to go to the Mozilla.Com site and reload and re-install Firefox. What's going on here? Never had this problem in the Linux OS (or XP) and the Mac is otherwise seamless. Is it me?
Barry
Yesterday it was Thunderbird. The profile folders were where they should be but the program itself was no longer on either the desktop or the dock. I used the "find" function but couldn't locate it. I downloaded a new copy, and found all of my settings and mail folders were in place (guess that was because the profile folder was untouched?). But I have no idea why the executable file should have been missing. Did I do something wrong when shutting down?
This morning it was Firefox. The icon was in the dock, but when I tried clicking on it to open it, it was dead. I went to "Finder -> applications -> Firefox" and received a message about an "alias" that needed to be deleted or fixed. I tried "fixing" it but had no idea what it wanted me to do, deleting the alias wiped out the icon into the trash.
I had to go to the Mozilla.Com site and reload and re-install Firefox. What's going on here? Never had this problem in the Linux OS (or XP) and the Mac is otherwise seamless. Is it me?
Barry