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I have two Profiles. How do I access the other one?

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Matt replied 7 years ago
qim
qim

I transferred, successfully, my emails from an old computer to a new one. However, I has used the new one, briefly, and had some important emails that I did not want to lose. I thought that I would be given a choice to merge old with new but the result was that when I go into ...AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles... I see TWO files: one that is identical to the one in the iold computer and another which I assume contains the emails I had in the new computer and have now disappeared.

How do I access that other file: xxxxxxxx.default  ?

I transferred, successfully, my emails from an old computer to a new one. However, I has used the new one, briefly, and had some important emails that I did not want to lose. I thought that I would be given a choice to merge old with new but the result was that when I go into ...AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles... I see TWO files: one that is identical to the one in the iold computer and another which I assume contains the emails I had in the new computer and have now disappeared. How do I access that other file: xxxxxxxx.default ?

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Matt
Matt
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locking, duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1265593