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C:\Users\<your_login>
).
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!
C:\Documents and Settings\<your_login>\Application Data\Thunderbird
C:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird
Thunderbird\Profiles
directory (a sub-directory named <random_string>.default
)<random_string>.default
folder to a fixed and known location on the computer, preferably a sub-directory of the manually created user DATA FOLDER and rename the copied directory to give it a more meaningful name<random_string>.default\
⇒ <disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB\
Thunderbird\profiles.ini
file so that TB knows where to look for the new location of its configuration directoryIsRelative=1
IsRelative=0
Path=Profiles\<random_string>.default
Path=<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB
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[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=Path=<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB Default=1 [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 Version=2
C:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_string>.default
directory!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
C:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird
Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_string>.default\
directory that was created when you started TB for the first time on this computerThunderbird\installs.ini
file (it will be automatically recreated later)Thunderbird\profiles.ini
file so that TB knows where to look for the new location of its configuration directoryIsRelative=1
IsRelative=0
Path=Profiles\<random_string>.default
Path=<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB
profiles.ini
configuration file!), 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[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=Path=<disk:>\Users\<your_login>\Thunderbird\Profiles\<your_login>_TB Default=1 [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 Version=2
profiles.ini
. If that's the case:about:profiles
in the location bar of FFC:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
Define as default
to make this the default profileabout:profiles
again and remove the profile(s) that is(/are) not using C:\Users\<your_login>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox
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