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Thunderbird update fails

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I have an odd thing. My Thunderbird mail client updates itself, then closes and restarts to finish the job. During this process, it fails telling me to check to makes sure I have permissions to the files then restarts itself, only to crash and tell me the same thing over and over.

Turns out, I have a Logitech QuickCam. If I unplug it and kill the task tray icon, the update works fine.

Odd, eh?

posted @ 2/27/2008 1:17:55 PM

Comments

kitakagaya says:

on 2/28/2008 2:33:51 AM

I also have a Logitech QuickCam and your suggestion above stopped me from pulling my hair out. Thank you! The Thunderbird update just kept on failing and failing and failing, until I unplugged the QuickCam. Sure enough, Thunderbird is happy as a pig in mud now.

Manhoss says:

on 2/29/2008 6:45:54 PM

You are awesome sir! Thank you for posting this!!!

nidget says:

on 3/6/2008 8:45:14 AM

Fantastic ! I had this problem too for six months. I have killed the quickcam.exe process and it has worked just fine. Many thanks for your help.

Bruto uurloon says:

on 3/7/2008 3:15:54 PM

well, the logitech quick cam uses several dlls which conflict with the thunderbird application. By dropping one app, the other app will regain rights & memory and you can use it again. I had this problem with my logitech mouse also.
regards
Mike

Sylvia says:

on 3/23/2008 5:48:53 AM

Hurray. I had this issue and did a quick search. Your post popped up and disabling quickcam.exe did the trick. Thank you :)

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