I have a unique problem, I think. made a NEW build and now comes the tedious work of getting things to work as they did on the old pc. I installed a new VERSION of Thunderbird. On my old HD, I would like to copy my profile to the new one...lots of important emails still on it. naturally, the HD is not bootable and I can't get on the internet with it, so i can't do the ususal search in RUN: %applic...etc."  I do see the FOLDER though and I did copy the entire folder, but i do not see the Profile folder...is it in that long name with the Default extension? If so, I thought just copying the profile folder would be sufficient and  would give u all that u need...I don't want to have duplications... ANYhow  is there a way that I can do this?When you install and start thunderbird it will create a default profile, and that is randomly generated. If you copy the profile from elsewhere, the installed version of Thunderbird doesn't know about it, because it uses a different randomly generated name. You need to edit profiles.ini and add the name of the profile. It should be relatively straightforward- just PASTE in the name of the copied folder into the "default" profile section. eg. if the folder you copied is "ze0x03d9.default" you would change the profiles.ini:
Code: [Select][Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/ze0x03d9.default
Default=1
Thanks..I did just that and when I RESTARTED TB, only my recent accounts are shown. I copied the default file into the TB main folder too.  Years ago it was simple to do as u said...but now it seems it has gotten more difficult. Wondering if I should copy the old TB folder and do it that way.