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Setting everything comptely on a different drive, including C:\Users\<user>\AppData

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JJM
JJM

Is there anyway of completely installing Thunberbird on a different drive and not have any stuff including symlinks in the users home directory?

Installing Thunderbird on a different drive/location is documented and straight forward but it insists on putting stuff in the users home directory C:\Users\<user>\AppData\ .

The problem can be fixed by using copying everything Thunderbird related in the C:\Users\<user>\AppData\ to the other drive and use symlinks from C:\Users\<user>\AppData\ directory to its new location. Thunderbird seems to be ok with symlinks.

Is there anyway of completely installing Thunberbird on a different drive and not have any stuff including symlinks in the users home directory? Installing Thunderbird on a different drive/location is documented and straight forward but it insists on putting stuff in the users home directory ''C:\Users\<user>\AppData\'' . The problem can be fixed by using copying everything Thunderbird related in the C:\Users\<user>\AppData\ to the other drive and use symlinks from C:\Users\<user>\AppData\ directory to its new location. Thunderbird seems to be ok with symlinks.

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david
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I am confident the developers could do this, but what's the point? Thunderbird needs to be able to immediately know the location of the profile when it starts.That is a plus. If the profile is on a different drive, the disk space is minimal on drive C. My thunderbird profile is 452 bytes. Thunderbird only opens the profiles.ini at the onset.

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