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I want my email to load and store NOT on my C:/ drive. Can I do it?

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Right now all of my email is accumulating on my C:/ drive. I have a second internal hard drive practically empty that I would like to install and use primarily for Thunderbird, but I can't seem to move my current email data to the F:/ drive without breaking the existing Tb account. How can I get Thunderbird over to the F:/ drive permanently: to download the new messages there, and to store them there? Any help? Thanks.

Right now all of my email is accumulating on my C:/ drive. I have a second internal hard drive practically empty that I would like to install and use primarily for Thunderbird, but I can't seem to move my current email data to the F:/ drive without breaking the existing Tb account. How can I get Thunderbird over to the F:/ drive permanently: to download the new messages there, and to store them there? Any help? Thanks.

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You have moved profiles.ini too. That needs to stay in the default location.

The section titled "Restoring to a different location" gives one way to do this. Personally I'd copy the whole thing over to the new drive then edit the original profiles.ini file.

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Move your profile over to f:\

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

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Thunderbird seems to WANT to only look in one place for my profile. When I moved the profiles (I have three) over to F:/, all that happened was that Thunderbird decided that I must be a new user and it asked me if I wanted to create a new email address? What am I doing wrong?

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You have moved profiles.ini too. That needs to stay in the default location.

The section titled "Restoring to a different location" gives one way to do this. Personally I'd copy the whole thing over to the new drive then edit the original profiles.ini file.

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THANK YOU! Works great. Will free up lots of space and, hopefully, make C:/ more efficient. Appreciate your help.