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| ====== Restoring a TB configuration directory ====== | ====== Restoring a TB configuration directory ====== | ||
| - | You have copied a TB configuration from another computer and want to use it! We assume that the restored TB directory is: | + | You have copied a TB configuration from another computer to your new computer and want to use it! We assume that the copied TB directory is: |
| * ''<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB'' | * ''<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB'' | ||
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| - Do some cleaning: | - Do some cleaning: | ||
| - Remove the the ''Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_string>.default\'' directory that was created when you started TB for the first time on this computer | - Remove the the ''Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_string>.default\'' directory that was created when you started TB for the first time on this computer | ||
| - | - Remove the ''Thunderbird\Profile\installs.ini'' file (it will be automatically recreated later) | + | - Remove the ''Thunderbird\installs.ini'' file (it will be automatically recreated later) |
| - Edit the ''Thunderbird\profiles.ini'' file so that TB knows where to look for the new location of its configuration directory | - Edit the ''Thunderbird\profiles.ini'' file so that TB knows where to look for the new location of its configuration directory | ||
| * ''IsRelative=1''\\ => ''IsRelative=0'' | * ''IsRelative=1''\\ => ''IsRelative=0'' | ||
| * ''Path=Profiles\<random_string>.default''\\ => ''Path=<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB'' | * ''Path=Profiles\<random_string>.default''\\ => ''Path=<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB'' | ||
| - | * When you are finished, the content of ''profiles.ini'' should be the following. If there are other settings defined in the file, you can (safely) erase them, and TB will add them again automatically the next time it is started\\ <code>[Profile0] | + | * When you are finished (<wrap em>don't forget to save the ''profiles.ini'' configuration file!</wrap>), the content of ''profiles.ini'' should be the following. If there are other settings defined in the file, you can (safely) erase them, and TB will add them again automatically the next time it is started\\ <code>[Profile0] |
| Name=default | Name=default | ||
| IsRelative=0 | IsRelative=0 | ||
other/thunderbird.txt · Last modified: 2023/09/28 10:46 by jypeter
