Thunderbird 1.5 - CAUTION - Calendar Users

**Dennis L** · 12th January 2006

I have been using Mozilla Calendar since March of 2004, first in Firefox, then moving it to Thunderbird. Currently I am using Mozilla Calendar 200511112-cal. I use it primarily for work (mine and wife's) along with all the important dates one has. When I seen TB 1.5 Final was available, never gave it a thought and installed.
Oooochhhh

Their is NO Mozilla Calendar version for TB 1.5
Their is a Mozilla Calendar Experimental Nightly for Firefox 1.5 released 2006-01-06. So I installed it on Firefox and went to "import" 6x individual calendar units. Don't know what the issue was, no errors or messages, just would not bring them in... nothing happens. So I went into preferences and notice my preferred "start of week day" was correctly set to Friday, but this new version displayed the normal Sunday through Saturday. Hmmm, this does not look good. I'm sitting with up to the minute backup files / profiles but of no value. Almost two years of history and the program will not accept them. The program does not have enough functionality to manage simply screen view changes. Possible with a complete manual input of each calendar unit and it's related history and it "might" work. So after an hour of getting no where, brought up my GoBack screen, and few minutes later TB 1.5 was gone, and I was back to TB 1.0.7 with a working calendar ... including the last email I got 10 minutes before I install TB 1.5 Final. At least once a year GoBack will save my butt, would not run a computer without it.

**Westside** · 12th January 2006

It seems that you got rid of 1.0.7, when you installed 1.5.
As usual, i never trust new programs. That's why I keep a bunch of them, and I install in separate folders, and use separate profile. Still, you have to watch these programs like a hawk. Yesterday, 1.0.7 and 1.5 minded their own business, and worked correctly, with 1.0.7 kept as default mail. This morning when I tried to access TB from Firefox, the first thing which happened was TB checking the extention, and finding World Weather incompatible. I did not catch on, immediately, but then I decided to check the version, and, sure enough it was 1.5, although I was never ask if I wanted as default, and besides, the order of the accounts was different in 1.5 from 1.0.7.
So, I close 1.5, and opened 1.0.7, and sure enough I had to make it default.
Then, after closing 1.0.7, I opened 1.5, and it asked me if I wanted to make it default. I hope that it is not the beginning of a fight, like in the NS7.0x vs. Mozilla1.0.x, when there was a constant fight for default supremacy.

**Ramona** · 12th January 2006

Dennis,

I do know that the Calendar extension is being worked on, and available soon...

**Dennis L** · 13th January 2006

Thanks Guys

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Westside ... I install in separate folders, and use separate profile. Still, you have to watch these programs like a hawk. ...

This behavior has occurred for myself when working with nightly's .. but able to reverse with a profile restore via SyncBack (my daily automatic backup program). It has always amazed me on which version wants to rule the roost.

Ramona ...
Thanks for the links. The real issue is base code is mirrored in all program platforms .. Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird, and Mozilla Sunbird.
The stable Calendar version(s) are pre-FF/TB 1.5 and Sunbird .02
The "work in progress" version are for FF/TB 1.5 series and Sunbird .03Alpha1.
Major bug is porting over old calendar.ics - which I've experienced in both FF 1.5 version and Sunbird .03, and anticipate in TB 1.5 version. The version I'm using in TB 1.0.7 is the same as pre-FF 1.5 Calendar version, as is Sunbird .02 ... they are functional (few quirks, but rock stable). I will leave Sunbird .03Alpha1 zip install on my computer ... for now, but at a 6MB program verse a 800KB extension ... it seems a high price to pay to get out of the "Chicken and the Egg" syndrome we have when FF or TB upgrades but extension have not. So as they say, when your in a
"Rock and a Hard Place" look for a soft landing ... for now, that will be TB 1.0.7