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| It's a good idea to move this folder to another known place, in order to be able to back it up or move it to a new computer later!</note> | It's a good idea to move this folder to another known place, in order to be able to back it up or move it to a new computer later!</note> | ||
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| + | <note important>The steps for moving/restoring the Firefox (FF) configuration directory are the same as the the Thunderbird steps below, except that [[other:firefox|the location of the configuration directory is slightly different]]. | ||
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| <note warning>\\ If you are using Linux, go the the [[other:linux:tb_ff|Thunderbird and Firefox on Linux]] page</note> | <note warning>\\ If you are using Linux, go the the [[other:linux:tb_ff|Thunderbird and Firefox on Linux]] page</note> | ||
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| - Start TB and check that everything is OK and that you have access to your existing mailboxes and settings | - Start TB and check that everything is OK and that you have access to your existing mailboxes and settings | ||
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| + | <note warning>When following the TB steps to restore a **Firefox** (FF) configuration, **it is possible that FF will create a new configuration**, instead of the one specified in ''profiles.ini''. If that's the case: | ||
| + | - Open the profile configuration page, by pasting ''about:profiles'' in the location bar of FF | ||
| + | - On this profile config page, locate the profile stored in ''C:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox'' | ||
| + | - Click on ''Define as default'' to make this the default profile | ||
| + | - Restart FF | ||
| + | - Open ''about:profiles'' again and remove the profile(s) that is(/are) not using ''C:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox''</note> | ||
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other/thunderbird.txt · Last modified: 2023/09/28 10:46 by jypeter
