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Thunderbird from Mircosoft Store different to Thunderbird downloaded from Mozilla

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Ulrich-Dieter.Schmidt
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Yesterday I set up my Laptop with a new Windows 11 system from scratch. Then I installed Thunderbird from the Microsoft store and tried to paste the copied repository to the Profile Folder in %APPDATA%/Thunderbird/Profiles (as described here). And was astonished - there was none. All the folders as described in the Thunderbird settings (e.g. Local Folder, Profile Folder etc) are still descibed within Thunderbird to be there - but werent. When I clicked on "Open Folder" in the "Troubleshooting Information" - Page - I got an error, that it is not there).

I had to delete Thunderbird and learned by that, it iis installed as an App - it cannot be removed as programs are removed.

So I am left with the question: How to migrate the repository of Thunderbird is installed as App from the Microsoft Store? Where are the data persisted?

Yesterday I set up my Laptop with a new Windows 11 system from scratch. Then I installed Thunderbird from the Microsoft store and tried to paste the copied repository to the Profile Folder in %APPDATA%/Thunderbird/Profiles (as described [http://example.com here]). And was astonished - there was none. All the folders as described in the Thunderbird settings (e.g. Local Folder, Profile Folder etc) are still descibed within Thunderbird to be there - but werent. When I clicked on "Open Folder" in the "Troubleshooting Information" - Page - I got an error, that it is not there). I had to delete Thunderbird and learned by that, it iis installed as an App - it cannot be removed as programs are removed. So I am left with the question: How to migrate the repository of Thunderbird is installed as App from the Microsoft Store? Where are the data persisted?

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Try looking in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages for the profile . The full path is rather long, I believe. You can uninstall by clicking to the windows app component in the uninstall menu. This link has info on moving profiles: 

 https://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
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david
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Try looking in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Packages for the profile . The full path is rather long, I believe. You can uninstall by clicking to the windows app component in the uninstall menu. This link has info on moving profiles: 

 https://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
Ulrich-Dieter.Schmidt
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Thank you for the response. As I installed Thunderbird now from the website (not as App) I cannot check this. Nevertehless, I'm glad, there is a desription avaliable. I had entered Account-Data and I do not like those to be persistet somewhere, I do not know. As I do not find the locations and am not sure whether they have been deleted dy removing Thunderbird, I will change the passwords of those accounts now.

Thanks a lot

david
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You are most welcome.

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