Thunderbird
Hello When I upgraded my Kubuntu 20 to 24 recently, I lost Internet access. So I installed Kubuntu 22 and upgraded to Kubuntu 24 which restored my Internet access. Consequently I am now trying to restore my emails in Thunderbird from my last backup. It took me while to realize that relevant Thunderbird profiles.ini wasn't the one in the Home > hidden .thunderbird Rather the profiles.ini is in Home > snap >thunderbird > common> .thunderbird That snap fooled me for a while ! So documentation doesn't mention snap, anyway I found it eventually. Also some documentation mentions profile.ini whereas it is actually profiles.ini ... plural. Sorry to be niggly. So now my profiles.ini looks like this: [Profile1]
Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=y72gpdv6.default Default=1
[InstallFDC34C9F024745EB] Default=3f6mpdvc.default-release Locked=1
[Profile0] Name=default-release IsRelative=1 Path=3f6mpdvc.default-release
[General] StartWithLastProfile=1 Version=2
I discovered that putting y72gpdv6.default from my backup in the code block at the top like that enables me to see most of my emails when I run Thunderbird. There are 4 blocks of code. Could you please tell me that the blocks do? There are 3 defaults, in fact 1 default and 2 default-releases. What is the purpose of the 2 default-releases? Should I change them, for example replace them with something from my backup? Naturally I want to be sure that I have recovered everything. My original profiles.ini only has 3 blocks of code. Of course, I considered just replacing the new profiles.ini with the original profiles.ini from my last backup, BUT the new profiles.ini has 4 blocks of code instead of 3, hence I'm trying to understand how profiles.ini works. I would appreciate any help. Thank you. Ron H
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I am a novice with Linux, but I'll try to share a high-level summary. With Windows, this is rarely a problem, as most users get thunderbird from thunderbird.net. linux users get from snap and flathup, and my understanding is that they each store profile in different locations. Which means that if you switch from snap to flathup, your old profile does not appear. This happens because the profiles.ini file from each distribution is pointing to a different profile. When thunderbird starts, it reads the distribution's profiles.ini for the location of the profile. It's that basic. If you use multiple profiles, it keeps track of the last used profile which, for most users, is the same one. When updating with the same distribution this is never an issue. When switching distributions, you have two choices: copy the contents of the old profile and paste into the profile of the new installation, or edit the profiles.ini of the new distribution to point to the profile of the prior installation. If you plan to remain using the current distribution for updates, I recommend the first option.
David, many thanks for your help. I suppose I was expecting it to be more mysterious :~) I will follow your advice when I can. I have now encountered another snag. I backup to two external drives, alternatively. The one with my most recent backup refuses to be mounted. I had tried everything that I know to no avail, so I have asked for help in Kubuntu Forums.