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Using Cloud Drives to store all profiles and mail

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I am looking for a way to have all Thunderbird profiles and mails in a cloud storage platform such as pCloud or Icedrive or even Dropbox. In other words I want the external Cloud drive to act as my local hard drive. I can't find any instructions on how to accomplish this or if it is possible. Thank You

I am looking for a way to have all Thunderbird profiles and mails in a cloud storage platform such as pCloud or Icedrive or even Dropbox. In other words I want the external Cloud drive to act as my local hard drive. I can't find any instructions on how to accomplish this or if it is possible. Thank You

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You can not find instructions because while it is possible to configure I am not aware of a single instance where it has actually worked long term. The usual result is data-loss. So I suggest you reconsider.

What exactly is the intent anyway?

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Two primary Use Cases: 1) Avoid consumption of Hard Drive space on the laptop 2) Ability to move from device to device but maintain the same Profile Thanks

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Awesome! Will definitely give PortableApps a try. Thanks!

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Do you know if PortableApps is running TB 78?

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I see that it just updated to 78 on 12/17/20. Thanks

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Hello, Is there a way to launch the Profile Manager in the PortableApps version? This is the path and command that I'm using in the Windows Run dialog box: I:\PortableApps-Mobile Apps\ThunderbirdPortable\thunderbirdportable.exe -p Running this just launches the entire Thunderbird App - it doesn't launch the Profile Manager. Thanks

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use about:profiles from the troubleshooting information on the help menu.

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Thanks Matt, Very Helpful.