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Have shortcuts for different profiles on Mac?

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I am using two profiles. The way I open it is open Thunderbird to start the default one, then I go through "help" > "troubleshooting" to get to the page that shows the link "about:profiles" and then I click that link so I can Launch the other profile. Not end of the world, but not fun either to go through all these steps.

Is there any way to create some sort of shortcuts that direct Thunderbird which profile to open?

Thank you

P.S. I tried playing with the Terminal as I found some references on how to use it to start the Profile Manager, but my Mac would not start any of that.

I am using two profiles. The way I open it is open Thunderbird to start the default one, then I go through "help" > "troubleshooting" to get to the page that shows the link "about:profiles" and then I click that link so I can Launch the other profile. Not end of the world, but not fun either to go through all these steps. Is there any way to create some sort of shortcuts that direct Thunderbird which profile to open? Thank you P.S. I tried playing with the Terminal as I found some references on how to use it to start the Profile Manager, but my Mac would not start any of that.

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I'll answer this myself.

1. For my comments in the P.S. section, it works but as per the instruction, full path and the command (no -bin though, just thunderbird -p). I would first go there by entering the CD path, then try to run.

2. I saved the profile starting command into a filename.command, changed the CHMOD for it to 755 so I can execute it.

Now when I double click onto the command file, I get the profile manager. :) Little better than to go through all the previous steps.

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Zaɓi Mafita

I'll answer this myself.

1. For my comments in the P.S. section, it works but as per the instruction, full path and the command (no -bin though, just thunderbird -p). I would first go there by entering the CD path, then try to run.

2. I saved the profile starting command into a filename.command, changed the CHMOD for it to 755 so I can execute it.

Now when I double click onto the command file, I get the profile manager. :) Little better than to go through all the previous steps.

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