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Exporting from a beta version to a stable release

russell.johnson67
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Hi, hope someone can help please

By mistake I set up my 89 year old aunties TB using a Beta version. All of her emails are in that profile. I then installed the stable version but I'm told that the stable version is an older versions and can not import from the Beta.

Specifically the Beta version is 127.0b4 (64-bit) and the stable vesrion is 115.11.1 (64-bit).

Is there any way to recover the emails (and if possible the settings) from the Beta profile to the stable release

Thanks in anticipation

Russell

Hi, hope someone can help please By mistake I set up my 89 year old aunties TB using a Beta version. All of her emails are in that profile. I then installed the stable version but I'm told that the stable version is an older versions and can not import from the Beta. Specifically the Beta version is 127.0b4 (64-bit) and the stable vesrion is 115.11.1 (64-bit). Is there any way to recover the emails (and if possible the settings) from the Beta profile to the stable release Thanks in anticipation Russell

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Start Thunderbird from the command line with 

 thunderbird.exe --allow-downgrade
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russell.johnson67
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Isn't there a fix for this?

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Wayne Mery
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Start Thunderbird from the command line with 

 thunderbird.exe --allow-downgrade

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russell.johnson67
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Thanks,

I'll give that a try this evening.

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russell.johnson67
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Thanks Wayne,

I got it working after a bit of fafffing around with the profiles. I ended up having to delete all but the beta profile and then creating a new profiles.ini file with the beta profile's name. Otherwise it kept wanting ro load the profile from last week when I hit this problem.

Sorry it took so long to reply, life got in the way as it so often does :-)

Russell

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