Just a quick note. I had to copy my wife's backed up Thunderbird email folder to a new installation. Old one was on Vista and I was copying it to an XP installation. Following steps worked.
* From the original system, copied the %APPDATA%\thunderbird\Profiles folder. This folder has all the data.
* After installing Thunderbird on the new system, copied the backed up folder to D: drive. The software is installed on C: drive and I wanted data to reside on D:.
* Then located the profiles.ini file under %APPSDATA%\thunderbird\ folder. Modified it as below -
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\Thunderbird\Profiles\hlnnkhedk.default
I provided the full path in the profiles file and set the "IsRelative" flag to 0. The path points to the actual data folder that was copied on D drive. Parameter "StartWithLastProfile" was set to 0 also.
* Fired up Thunderbird. All old emails and contacts available. New emails synced automatically.
Cheers.
* From the original system, copied the %APPDATA%\thunderbird\Profiles folder. This folder has all the data.
* After installing Thunderbird on the new system, copied the backed up folder to D: drive. The software is installed on C: drive and I wanted data to reside on D:.
* Then located the profiles.ini file under %APPSDATA%\thunderbird\ folder. Modified it as below -
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\Thunderbird\Profiles\hlnnkhedk.default
I provided the full path in the profiles file and set the "IsRelative" flag to 0. The path points to the actual data folder that was copied on D drive. Parameter "StartWithLastProfile" was set to 0 also.
* Fired up Thunderbird. All old emails and contacts available. New emails synced automatically.
Cheers.
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