
How do I reopen an old profile rescued from a dead computer?
First things first: I'm on a Mac. I know that can affect things.
So my old hard drive developed critical I/O errors and wouldn't boot. I managed to rescue the Thunderbird profile folders from the hard drive and bring them over to a different system, but I'm unable to get Thunderbird to recognize or import the email profile, etc. I've looked for, and can't find, the profiles.ini file.
Ideas? I have about 7 years of messages that I don't want to lose (and a ton of notes I kept in "Drafts").
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If you just need to import the mail folders, see this article. To make TB recognize the entire profile folder, you could Create a new profile with Profile Manager and then run TB with that profile, but that is a bit more complex than simply importing the mail folders.