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New profiles on dual-boot quandry

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knthrppl
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I am currently running a dualboot of Win10Home and Win10Pro. I will eventually be completely on Pro. I share the "MyInstalledPrograms" partition. The Thunderbird 78 update ran on Win10Pro. Now, when I open TB on Win10Home, I get a message that 78 has completely rebuilt my profiles, and I either have to create new profiles, or Exit. It gives me no option of upgrading the Win10Home version of TB, since TB is already updated to 78 on the shared partition. So how do I resolve this situation? Can I find the profiles on the Win10Pro boot and copy them to the Win10Home boot? Until I am completely migrated over to the Win10Pro system, I need to find things on the Home system WHILE I AM ON the Home system.

I am currently running a dualboot of Win10Home and Win10Pro. I will eventually be completely on Pro. I share the "MyInstalledPrograms" partition. The Thunderbird 78 update ran on Win10Pro. Now, when I open TB on Win10Home, I get a message that 78 has completely rebuilt my profiles, and I either have to create new profiles, or Exit. It gives me no option of upgrading the Win10Home version of TB, since TB is already updated to 78 on the shared partition. So how do I resolve this situation? Can I find the profiles on the Win10Pro boot and copy them to the Win10Home boot? Until I am completely migrated over to the Win10Pro system, I need to find things on the Home system WHILE I AM ON the Home system.

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knthrppl
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Continuing>>> OR can I download an install version of 78 on the Win10Home system, install it, and it will do the same profile conversion on the Home system that it did on the Pro system? With the shared partition, it will merely be a reinstall over itself.

Toad-Hall
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Do I understand correctly, you have different versions of Thunderbird running in 'Home' & 'Pro'. but both accessing and using same profile in a shared partition? If yes: Since version 68 Thunderbird has operated on a profile per installation. So the 'profile' got updated to run on eg: 78.8.0

This means the now older version of thunderbird cannot run on a newer profile designed for later version. Hence cannot find profile.

Suggest uninstall version in 'home', download same version being used in 'Pro'.

Or are you running one version of Thunderbird in the shared partition and separate profiles one in Home and one in 'Pro' ? If yes: Are the 'profiles in the two different locations identical or not? Create new mail accounts in the 'home' version as it is suggesting. If imap accounts then they should easily replicate. If pop, create the pop account but do not download. Exit Thunderbird. Access profile and then copy paste the 'Local Folders' mail account folder from old profile to new 'profile name' > 'Mail' folder Then access old pop mail account folder on old profile - copy entire contents (all mbox files and any folder with .sbd extension) and paste them into the newly created pop mail account name folder in new profile.