in Windows, non-relative paths use backslashes, whereas relative ones use forward slashes). IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you switch from a relative path to a non-relative one, the direction of the slashes may need to change (e.g. Change the Path= line to the new location.
For example, on Windows XP, move the profile from C:\Documents and Settings\ \Applicationĭata\Thunderbird\Profiles\ fault to D:\Stuff\MyMailProfile. Move the profile folder to the desired location.This could be useful if you have a backed up profile folder somewhere on your hard drive and want to tell Thunderbird to use that as your profile. It's possible to move the location of a profile folder. Move an existing profile or restore a backed up profile Make a copy of your profile folder to, for example, a CD-RW disc or a separate hard disk for backup purposes.Shut down Thunderbird completely ( File > Exit).
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\ProfileName, where username would be, is your Windows username and Profile Name is the Mozilla profile name in which the emails are registered under. Navigate to the profile directory, for example.
Just follow these steps (which assumes you know how to manage files on your computer): Close any running instances of Mozilla Thunderbird. Do this by checking the Don't ask at startup option.īacking up your profile folder in Thunderbird is easy. You can also have Thunderbird start a selected profile automatically, so you don't have to pick one each time the browser is launched. You will be taken to the "real" folder, which is normally C:\Documents and Settings\ \Application Data on Windows XP/2000, C:\users\ \AppData\Roaming on Windows Vista. (use the search box on Vista), enter %AppData% and press Enter. %AppData% is a shorthand for the Application Data path on Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Files Type dir LOCALAPPDATAMozillaFirefox For all the folders that were listed in the previous step: Type dir LOCALAPPDATAMozillaSeaMonkey For. On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usuallyĬ:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Profiles\ fault\.On Windows Vista, and the rest should be obvious. On Windows XP/2000 or C:\users\ \AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\ Just browse toĬ:\Documents and Settings\ \Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\ Where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is usually.Knowing where your profile folder is stored can be useful if, for example, you want to make a backup of your personal data. 4 Move an existing profile or restore a backed up profile.With regard to this POST I still would like to get an answer to how to properly use a network share since I had to completely workaround it. Thunderbird comes up, but it seems like it's reinstalling it or something.) (In short, I installed thunderbird but I'm not sure it's really installed because the disk image keeps reappearing even after I eject it. NOW I have a new problem still bugging me which I will start a separate post for. I also had struggles with figuring out how to create a thunderbird profile and then substitute my old one for it. But then all files and subdirectories were read-only, so I had to dig out a unix book and figure out how to recursively change permissions (chmod -R u+w). I easily copied the Thunderbird profile into place.
I got so frustrated, I decided to just burn a DVD and see if this worked any better. Thanks for all your suggestions, however. OSX would not let me copy all of the profile directory. Nothing seemed to help as far as getting my profile over the network share.