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Thunderbird upgrade from 68.0 (32 bit) to 68.1 (64 bit)

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Windows 10 with latest updates. I upgraded to 68.1 and I note that the 64 bit version has installed itself (the upgrade to 68.0 was still 32 bit). In the process Thunderbird has lost all my mails and accounts. How can I retrieve everything to import into 68.1? Any advice would be much appreciated. In the meantime I am still using 68.0

Windows 10 with latest updates. I upgraded to 68.1 and I note that the 64 bit version has installed itself (the upgrade to 68.0 was still 32 bit). In the process Thunderbird has lost all my mails and accounts. How can I retrieve everything to import into 68.1? Any advice would be much appreciated. In the meantime I am still using 68.0

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Solved this one myself. It's a question of profiles. Help > Troubleshooting Information. Click on Profiles and set the default profile to my previous and Hey presto!

For those in Thunderbird that ever read this, this is a really annoying problem (use of multiple profiles) that I also encountered with Firefox upgrade to 68. It would have been so much easier if this change had been well communicated.

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Solved this one myself. It's a question of profiles. Help > Troubleshooting Information. Click on Profiles and set the default profile to my previous and Hey presto!

For those in Thunderbird that ever read this, this is a really annoying problem (use of multiple profiles) that I also encountered with Firefox upgrade to 68. It would have been so much easier if this change had been well communicated.

Issue now closed.

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But my installation of TB 68.1 won't let me open the troubleshooting menu. Nor Options. Now I have to uninstall 68 and reinstall 60 every time I start TB. What's the problem here?