glennmgray
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Thunderbird not picking up new default printer
We recently installed a new Kyocera 5035 copier/printer. This has been set as the default printer for most people. Excel, Word, Notepad & Reflections ( a terminal emulation program) correctly pick up the new default printer. Thunderbird does not. When print is selected , the dialog box comes up with another printer as the default. Changing it works only for that print. The next time something is printed, the same printer (not the 5035) comes up, even without exiting the program. This happens in xp pro & 2000 pro. All printing is done through our file server running Win2k server. Both the individual pc's and the server have been rebooted.
moorhouselondon
My inclination would be to reinstall TBird and it will hopefully refresh its' settings.
Try as moorhouselondon suggests. To add info to it, reinstalling TB will not loose emails or preferences. Those are stored in the Profile Folder, but backing those up prior to uninstalling TB and Reinstalling a new copy won't hurt.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
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I uninstalled thunderbird (v. 1.5.0.5) and downloaded and installed v. 1.5.0.8. It correctly found my old emails and automatically loaded them, but still had the old default printer, not the current one.
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Just FYI (or anyone else, for that matter :^)) the actual line I removed was:
user_pref("print.print_pri
Just FYI (or anyone else, for that matter :^)) the actual line I removed was:
user_pref("print.print_pri
ASKER
After removing the reference to the printer I changed the default printer several times to check and it correctly picked up the new default each time. Thanks!
Glad to help.