Profiles on remote hard drive won;t load for new installation
1. Profile held on remote hard drive. 2. On old computer made a copy of the Ini files at Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird 2. new PC and installed Thunderbird. Closed once asked to add an email account. 3. Updated ini files in Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird 4. Restarted Thunderbird - profile doesn't load. 5 Attempted the following:
a) Create a new profile via <menu> > Help > Troubleshooting Information ? Profiles .. Aboutprofiles, and point to the profile on the remote hard drive
if launch 'launch profile in new browser' I see tabs 'Account Setup' and 'Thunderbird Privacy Notice', but nothing else.
b) Tried importing the remote profile - got an error and when look at <menu> > Tools > Developer tools … Console I get a number of 'can't overwrite due to NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED' reports.
c) Tried copying the profile over to the computer and renaming it to the new xxx.default-release profile … using the ini files for that local xxx.default-release profile. Still can't see the previous emails. (NB. as part of te copy a number of files (mostly js) wouldn't copy over, so took copies from the local profile and copied them to the renamed / copied over remote profile.)
.Tried connecting to a gmail account and adding some files to Local Folders. I can see the new folder account in ImapMail, along with the email accounts I would like to see but can't.
Lastly, I have an another older PC with an older version of Thunderbird that pointed to the remote profile. But when I try to run that it complains that it is not compatible.
Can provide console as a text file or an image.
1. Profile held on remote hard drive.
2. On old computer made a copy of the Ini files at Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird
2. new PC and installed Thunderbird. Closed once asked to add an email account.
3. Updated ini files in Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird
4. Restarted Thunderbird - profile doesn't load.
5 Attempted the following:
a) Create a new profile via <menu> > Help > Troubleshooting Information ? Profiles .. Aboutprofiles, and point to the profile on the remote hard drive
if launch 'launch profile in new browser' I see tabs 'Account Setup' and 'Thunderbird Privacy Notice', but nothing else.
b) Tried importing the remote profile - got an error and when look at <menu> > Tools > Developer tools … Console I get a number of 'can't overwrite due to NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED' reports.
c) Tried copying the profile over to the computer and renaming it to the new xxx.default-release profile … using the ini files for that local xxx.default-release profile. Still can't see the previous emails. (NB. as part of te copy a number of files (mostly js) wouldn't copy over, so took copies from the local profile and copied them to the renamed / copied over remote profile.)
.Tried connecting to a gmail account and adding some files to Local Folders. I can see the new folder account in ImapMail, along with the email accounts I would like to see but can't.
Lastly, I have an another older PC with an older version of Thunderbird that pointed to the remote profile. But when I try to run that it complains that it is not compatible.
Can provide console as a text file or an image.
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