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Migrating profile to Windows 11

lionel.smith
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I am trying to migrate my Wife's Thunderbird Profile from her Windows 10 PC to her new Windows 11 PC. Thanks to previous articles I have copied the profile and placed it into her new computer's profile folder. Due to a previous attempt I have a live profile that downloaded 1.5Gb of emails under a default-release file name and two default files, an empty one and the transferred file.

I cannot find any link to Profile Manager to select the profile I wish to use. I ran the "thunderbird -Profile Manager" in command line and as prompted "thunderbird.exe -Profile Manager" but am getting nowhere.

I realise I may have to rename the copied profile, but without Profile Manager I will not be able to proceed choosing the profile and deleting the other two. If I deleted the other profiles would the PC choose the only profile left?

I am trying to migrate my Wife's Thunderbird Profile from her Windows 10 PC to her new Windows 11 PC. Thanks to previous articles I have copied the profile and placed it into her new computer's profile folder. Due to a previous attempt I have a live profile that downloaded 1.5Gb of emails under a default-release file name and two default files, an empty one and the transferred file. I cannot find any link to Profile Manager to select the profile I wish to use. I ran the "thunderbird -Profile Manager" in command line and as prompted "thunderbird.exe -Profile Manager" but am getting nowhere. I realise I may have to rename the copied profile, but without Profile Manager I will not be able to proceed choosing the profile and deleting the other two. If I deleted the other profiles would the PC choose the only profile left?

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TyDraniu
TyDraniu
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Try -p or -ProfileManager

lionel.smith
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Thanks for the suggestion, I keep getting back to Application basics though. This is where "Help" and "Troubleshooting Information" takes me.

I am running Thunderbird 115.6.0 on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines. The migrating of the profile and then over-writing the new Windows 11 profile did not retain the installed email folders which is why I was looking for Profile Manager.

I don't know why Thunderbird creates the two defaults , one default which looks not to be used and the default -release which is.