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Le thread ibilondoloziwe. Nceda ubuze umbuzo omtsha ukuba ufuna uncedo.

Moved Thunderbird to new linux pc but can only see one of the email accounts and no local directories.

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Joolsmy
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I copied the .thunderbird folder to the new installation. Thunderbird was not able to access the profile so I created a new profile and copied the files into it replacing files of the same name. When I restarted Thunderbird only one of my email accounts was shown (a gmail account) and none of the local folders. On the original linux pc I was using a master password, on the new installation I was not prompted to enter a master password.

I copied the .thunderbird folder to the new installation. Thunderbird was not able to access the profile so I created a new profile and copied the files into it replacing files of the same name. When I restarted Thunderbird only one of my email accounts was shown (a gmail account) and none of the local folders. On the original linux pc I was using a master password, on the new installation I was not prompted to enter a master password.

Isisombulu esikhethiweyo

Hi Chris, Turns out I've been a bit stupid. I had forgotten I had already moved the profile on the original pc and it wasn't in the .thunderbird directory, but there was an old profile there which was the one I was trying to use.

I only realised when I checked the profile.ini and saw the modified path. Now I've transferred the right profile it's all working perfectly.

Thank you for helping and sorry for the confusion.

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christ1
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See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC#Moving_from_Windows_to_OSX_or_Linux

Joolsmy
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I'm trying to move from linux to linux so not sure if that article is relevant to me. However, I tried running Thunderbird from the command line with the -profile option, but this did not help; I'm still seeing only the one email account, no local folders and am not being prompted for the master profile.

Chris Ilias
Chris Ilias
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Hi Joolsmy. The original method you tried of copying the .thunderbird folder should have worked. Could explain what you experienced when you say "Thunderbird was not able to access the profile"?

Right now, I suspect you had Thunderbird running at the time you copied the folder from your original computer. Make sure Thunderbird is not running when you move your data.

Joolsmy
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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

Hi Chris, Turns out I've been a bit stupid. I had forgotten I had already moved the profile on the original pc and it wasn't in the .thunderbird directory, but there was an old profile there which was the one I was trying to use.

I only realised when I checked the profile.ini and saw the modified path. Now I've transferred the right profile it's all working perfectly.

Thank you for helping and sorry for the confusion.