How to recover backup from TBird 145.0-1 in new 140.7.1?
My old Arch Linux system with Thunderbird 145.0-1-x86_64 died. My RasPi and my new Pop-OS Meerkat both get 140.7.1esr (aarch64), and say they can't import my backups. I could see the RasPi ARM system getting a different Thunderbird, but the Meerkat is clearly an Intel processor. Why does it get the same version as the ARM based Pi? How can I recover my years of mail history? Both new installations say they are incompatible!
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See if there is a file in the proflle named cpmpatibility.ini. if so, delete it and see if that works
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See if there is a file in the proflle named cpmpatibility.ini. if so, delete it and see if that works
@david,
[Compatibility] LastVersion=142.0_20250827113249/20250827113249 LastOSABI=Linux_x86_64-gcc3 LastPlatformDir=/usr/lib/thunderbird LastAppDir=/usr/lib/thunderbird
Looks to be in-between my old 145.0-1-x86_64 and new 140.7.1esr. No idea what that means.
Too late tonight to start this project. Maybe tomorrow... Thanks!
@david,
Wow! Thank You! That worked! All my accounts are now in the new install, and it downloaded all the messages it hadn't seen since the previous computer died.
But... The Local Folders item shows none of my history. In my backup files I see Mail -> Local Folders with Trash and Unsent Messages, both empty. I remember seeing named files and msf files for each local folder in the past, but can't find any of them now.
Ah, found them! In Home/Loren/Documents/Tmail/Local Folders. Maybe I chose that location many years ago? So now I have history up to my last backup. Guess that's the best I can hope for...
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