Almost successful profile transfer but where are the email folders?
I loaded a profile and successfully pointed a new install of TBird to it on Windows 10. This was done using notepad and the profiles.ini file. The past profile was on another drive with Win 10 also, but that OS had some issues. So the TBird profile I need seemed as though it was loading, even an extra tab was open for Google Calendar. The toolbar looks set up the same too. And the addons>extensions look pretty much there. What did NOT load were all my email folders, of course the emails within them, and the theme I was using. I had installed release 52.0b2 which is what I think my version was on the old drive. Unfortunately when I opened TBird it defaulted to an automatic update. However it looks like all extensions are compatible. SO the most important part of moving my profile is missing- the emails and folders containing them. In the profile there is a huge file called global-messages-db.sqlite of 509000KB, much bigger than all others. I am pretty sure my folders/emails are there or somewhere in the profile. I would gladly trade the extensions and toolbar setup that did open for my emails and folders. Any advice?
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OMG what a 2 hours. I skipped the flash drive, copied from the old drive to the desktop on the new drive. Deleted new profile I loaded from the flash and replaced it with the desktop file and same profile name. I'm good. Theme, files, emails, all. Also prevented the update to latest version. Lesson learned.
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thunderbird.exe -p would be my preferred route. Note the space before the hyphen.
Have you moved the old rescued profile into the usual place, or are you trying to use it in situ?
I don't know what you think you need to remember. I think the profile's folder name is all you need.
I used that route and the profile transferred is now the only one there and is the 'default'. Like I mentioned, it did the correct configuration, had the extensions, but NO email and folders. I had gone from old drive to flash drive to new drive and new TBird install. Is my only choice to re-transfer the needed profile? Maybe rename and start over? it is very large and slow to move it.
What I used in the text editor and seems to open correctly > [General] StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/ThunderbirdBackup_08_23_2017.default Default=1
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OMG what a 2 hours. I skipped the flash drive, copied from the old drive to the desktop on the new drive. Deleted new profile I loaded from the flash and replaced it with the desktop file and same profile name. I'm good. Theme, files, emails, all. Also prevented the update to latest version. Lesson learned.