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Import profile from old Firefox installation on Win 7 to new installation on Win 10Pro

Can I transfer my existing Firefox profile on the Windows 7 machine to a new installation on a new Win10Pro machine by copying the profile from the "AppData" location ont… (read more)

Can I transfer my existing Firefox profile on the Windows 7 machine to a new installation on a new Win10Pro machine by copying the profile from the "AppData" location onto a pen drive, and then copying that into the comparable folder in the new machine.

I assume if I can I will then need to make the copied profile the default one using profile manager?

Asked by lionladysf 1 year ago

Answered by lionladysf 1 year ago

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No Thunderbird folder in Roaming. Thunderbird installed from MS Store

New windows 11 computer. Set up Thunderbird with gmail account and I can send and receive emails. however, when I tried to find the profile folder, I noticed there is no… (read more)

New windows 11 computer. Set up Thunderbird with gmail account and I can send and receive emails. however, when I tried to find the profile folder, I noticed there is no Thunderbird folder in the Roaming folder. I can not find it anywhere.

Asked by Ri 1 year ago

Answered by Matt 1 year ago

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Oops... Going from TBird Portable to Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) SuperNova

TIA , Windows 11 Oops... Going from TBird Portable to Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) SuperNova I accidentally ended up with Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) SuperNova , (TBS).… (read more)

TIA , Windows 11 Oops... Going from TBird Portable to Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) SuperNova I accidentally ended up with Thunderbird 115.9.0 (64-bit) SuperNova , (TBS). And I notice there is an entry in 'Installed Apps' for Mozilla Thunderbird (x86 en-US) But when I look in C:\Program Files (x86) there is no Entry for TB . Moving on ... TB Portable has Folders for 'App' 'Data' 'Other' TB Supernova (TBS) has no such Folders . And Looks Like I'll have to re-Build all my email accounts (10) .

How to proceed? : Shall I unInstall 'Installed Apps' for Mozilla Thunderbird (x86 en-US) I do have a Backup for: TB Portable has Folders for 'App' 'Data' 'Other'

Asked by Vern Mars 10 months ago

Answered by david 10 months ago

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What is the Firefox Installer?

I'm trying to migrate to the newest version of Firefox on an old installation of Fedora. I've downloaded and unpacked the installation files but can't identify the insta… (read more)

I'm trying to migrate to the newest version of Firefox on an old installation of Fedora. I've downloaded and unpacked the installation files but can't identify the installer. All I probably need is the name, as I know how to make it executable and run it once I know what file it is.

Asked by sideburns 11 months ago

Answered by sideburns 11 months ago

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I updated to the lastet version and get a warning

The latest update of Thunderbird somehow made this message appear "This is an unsupported version of Thunderbird!!" (see attached picture). Is this a bug? I've checked th… (read more)

The latest update of Thunderbird somehow made this message appear "This is an unsupported version of Thunderbird!!" (see attached picture). Is this a bug? I've checked the version on the homepage and it's the same that's running on my PC (Windows 11).

Asked by shugal 7 months ago

Answered by david 7 months ago

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error: Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. The old Thunderbird process must be closed to open a new window.

It's not true! Clicking on the close thunderbird button in the error message does nothing, I've uninstalled, reinstalled rebooted. I've had this laptop 3 days, do I need … (read more)

It's not true! Clicking on the close thunderbird button in the error message does nothing, I've uninstalled, reinstalled rebooted. I've had this laptop 3 days, do I need to To go back to factory settings on this laptop.

Asked by Dolphindave 1 year ago

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Migration to new Windows 11 PC not working

I have followed the instructions for moving my data folder to a new PC running Windows 11 and it is not working. The only thing that is different is that my file path on … (read more)

I have followed the instructions for moving my data folder to a new PC running Windows 11 and it is not working. The only thing that is different is that my file path on my old Windows 10 PC is different. The folder is located on my desktop and labeled "thunderbird data". There is no three level jump to "roaming". But the contents of the folder are the same, however. I copied, paste and recopied to new PC per instructions, then restarted Thunderbird. It takes me directly to the account set up process, clearly not recognizing the pasted folder and its contents. I've now tried this multipe times to no avail.

Asked by contact802 1 year ago

Answered by contact802 1 year ago

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Desperately need to download a copy of firefox 56.0.2

I have been using Firefox 56.0.2 on Windows 7 for years safely. Until yesterday. We had one of those mini powerouts, that caused problems. My hard drive is failing an… (read more)

I have been using Firefox 56.0.2 on Windows 7 for years safely. Until yesterday. We had one of those mini powerouts, that caused problems.

My hard drive is failing and Firefox will no longer fully load, it tries bless it, but some FF files must be in the damaged sectors of the hard drive. It then locks the system. Using Chrome works fine. But some logins/passwords/bookmarks had to be changed very recently and are not stored in the chrome browser yet. I hate chrome so use FF as the main browser.

I'm thinking that if I can install a fresh copy of FF 56.0.2 in a separate folder, a separate 2nd copy of FF, and then copy yesterday mornings backed up FF profile (before the crash) I could at least copy over all the bookmarks etc to Chrome so I can have my logins etc back.

This mornings backup failed to backup some FF files, all others were fine. Firefox worked fine yesterday but failed to launch this morning.

Please help save my sanity. I know I have to move to W 10, but cannot on this computer.

Asked by SueWitch 1 year ago

Answered by cor-el 1 year ago

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new account in windows

i made a new,local windows 11 account coz there were some problems with windows in the current account. how can i transfer all -settings, local folders etc from this c… (read more)

i made a new,local windows 11 account coz there were some problems with windows in the current account. how can i transfer all -settings, local folders etc from this current account to the new one? in this new one account tb is installed and has connection to my provider.

Asked by Slawomir Dzwonek 1 year ago

Answered by david 1 year ago

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Getting Message "Profile Missing ..." After Attempting Downgrade from 115 to 102.

Earlier in the week I did a successful downgrade from 115 to 102. It ran fine. Then, stupidly, I got the message that an upgrade was available and I permitted it. Stupi… (read more)

Earlier in the week I did a successful downgrade from 115 to 102. It ran fine. Then, stupidly, I got the message that an upgrade was available and I permitted it. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid! What I got, of course was a new 115 (I don't know what the sub version was). So I followed the same procedure as before to go back to 102. This time, when 102 started I got a message that my profile was modified by 115 and might not be usable in 102 (Or words like that.) and TB terminated. Now when I start 102 I get the attached image. Since I did a full disk backup just before this TB "upgrade" I thought I could restore the previous profile of the same name. That didn't work, same message. I went back and retrieved a week old version of the profile and same result. profiles.ini lists the same file as default.

Did this new version of 115 corrupt my profile?.......Intentionally!!! Or leave something under a rock to trick 102 to not be able to use that profile and even older backups?

Where can I go from here? 102 can't use the only profile I have ever had starting 15 or more years ago?

Asked by petejc 1 year ago

Answered by david 1 year ago

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Adding a new email account to Thunderbird

Hi My name is Ivo. I use Thunderbird for all my Email-Accounts. Now I wanted to add another one, which is info@ivo-zimmermann.ch, but it does not work (pls see screensho… (read more)

Hi

My name is Ivo. I use Thunderbird for all my Email-Accounts. Now I wanted to add another one, which is info@ivo-zimmermann.ch, but it does not work (pls see screenshots in the attachment).

info@ivo-zimmermann.ch works fine when I login directly on Gmail, it also worked fine to login here into the mozilla support. Also all other accounts that I have (for example info@kanai-zimmermann.ch) were no problem to install.

Do you have an idea where the problem is?

Thank you in advance Ivo

Asked by Ivo Zimmermann 1 year ago

Answered by david 1 year ago

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TB won't import Protonmail .vcf file for contacts

I use Protonmail, and after a year of on-and-off back and forth with them, I finally have the bridge working with Thunderbird. At any rate, I have been trying to import … (read more)

I use Protonmail, and after a year of on-and-off back and forth with them, I finally have the bridge working with Thunderbird.

At any rate, I have been trying to import my contacts from the Protonmail webmail to Thunderbird. There is an export tool on the webmail site, and that seems to go fine - it creates a .vcf file. If I open that document, it has all of my contacts there. Then I open Thunderbird and use the import tool - that appears to go fine, but after I hit "finish" and look in the contacts, there are no addresses. I have shut down and rebooted, closed Thunderbird and re-opened it, tried all of this several times, but nothing changes.

I searched on here for threads on this and found things from 2015 saying that a .vcf file is for individual addresses only, but I'm thinking that must have changed? It is the only export option.

Can anyone help? I have TB 102.8.0, and I am on Cinnamon - Kernel: 5.15.0-67-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.8 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

Thank you.

Asked by knh11 1 year ago

Answered by knh11 1 year ago

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Cannot configure AOL email account in Thunderbird

I am having trouble manually configuring an AOL email account (username@verizon.net). AOL's instructions say to manually configure the account. I tried to do that twice, … (read more)

I am having trouble manually configuring an AOL email account (username@verizon.net). AOL's instructions say to manually configure the account. I tried to do that twice, once with IMAP and the other with POP.

Now, I have two email folders in Thunderbird that I cannot use. They are both empty because I get a message box that says "Login to server imap.aol.com with username@verizon.net failed." when I try to use them. When I use the same login credentials to login to the website mail.aol.com, they work.

I have to contact AOL as to why when I try to access the account with an email client (Thunderbird and Outlook) I'm getting password errors. In the meantime, how do I delete the two email folders created incorrectly in Thunderbird?

Thanks for your help.

Asked by jarosenquist 7 months ago

Answered by jarosenquist 6 months ago

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Help: Migrate TB Portable to new computer

TIA , Time to Migrate TB Portable to new computer : I was advised that all need to do is Copy this Folder C:\ThunderbirdPortable to new computer . But that doesn'… (read more)

TIA , Time to Migrate TB Portable to new computer : I was advised that all need to do is Copy this Folder C:\ThunderbirdPortable to new computer . But that doesn't bring over all my email accounts . Pls , what else do I need to do ? Thanks...

Asked by Vern Mars 8 months ago

Answered by Vern Mars 8 months ago

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Rar files automatically failing the download

Whenever I try to download a rar file, like a game from itch.io,0 it automatically fails and doesn't download even after retrying multiple times. … (read more)

Whenever I try to download a rar file, like a game from itch.io,0 it automatically fails and doesn't download even after retrying multiple times.

Asked by Jon Cape 1 year ago

Answered by Jon Cape 1 year ago

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I messed up Thuderbird, can't import old profiles etc

I desperately (sobbing here) need someone to hold my hand and walk me through this!!! I uninstalled the newest version (115) and installed the previous version (102) beca… (read more)

I desperately (sobbing here) need someone to hold my hand and walk me through this!!! I uninstalled the newest version (115) and installed the previous version (102) because of an outgoing mail problem. It gave me a warning that the newer version changed my profiles and it's not compatible so I downloaded the new version again. The import screen doesn't look anything like what it says in the help files. I don't have an option for importing from a previous version.

Please rescue me. I run a nonprofit and I have deadlines and meetings next week that I was supposed to make arrangements for and I've been dealing with this for almost a week.

Asked by flwildlife 1 year ago

Answered by flwildlife 1 year ago

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PDF Download

In the recent update, there is a new feature which allowed people to view pdf directly in the browser rather than downloading it. Ever since this was implemented, I am no… (read more)

In the recent update, there is a new feature which allowed people to view pdf directly in the browser rather than downloading it. Ever since this was implemented, I am not able to download any pdf, instead it keeps opening up the pdf in another tab which is not what I'm trying to do. Is there a way to fix this?

Asked by Shamil 1 year ago

Answered by Paul 1 year ago

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ImportExport NG Not Working

Hi all, I am in the midst of migrating a gmail account to another gmail account as I will be losing access to one in the near future. I have downloaded the email and eve… (read more)

Hi all,

I am in the midst of migrating a gmail account to another gmail account as I will be losing access to one in the near future. I have downloaded the email and everything I want using Google Takeout. This has created an mBox file. From there I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and logged onto this with the new gmail email address I want to use. I downloaded the ImportExport NG extension as well. From there I see the next step is to click on the local folder tab and go the the ImportExport NG tab, it's there that I don't have the import option like everyone else seems to have. See picture below to see what my options look like.

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated!

Asked by Matthew Crepas 1 year ago

Answered by sfhowes 1 year ago

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Thunderbird unable to connect to gmail

I have been using Thunderbird for many years, untill march 2023. Then an authentication error made an end to it. I have tried everything I could find on internet, uninsta… (read more)

I have been using Thunderbird for many years, untill march 2023. Then an authentication error made an end to it. I have tried everything I could find on internet, uninstalled Thunderbird, removed everything from the program / data / roaming directory, deleted everything I could find and checked that cookies are allowed. I have used BlueMail as an alternative but I love Thunderbird much more, so I now tried again to make a fresh start when a new installation of the latest version of Thunderbird. Connecting to the email server of caiway works fine, but I am unable to connect to a gmail. I have tried two different gmail accounts, both give the same error "Unable to connect". Is there anything I can do to solve this problem and enjoy using Thunderbird again?

Asked by Jan Eijgenraam 1 year ago

Answered by sfhowes 1 year ago

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Pop3 Inbox displaying emails in groups and no subfolders

Hello, I installed Thunderbird using POP3 to download all emails from my Zoho Mail server to store them in my PC but although all emails appear now to be in the inbox, th… (read more)

Hello, I installed Thunderbird using POP3 to download all emails from my Zoho Mail server to store them in my PC but although all emails appear now to be in the inbox, there are no subfolders, emails are grouped according to subject titles and I cannot seem to find the latest email on the list. What can I do to display them chronologically by date and restore subfolders and archives? Upon lauching, this is what I get. Thank you

Asked by m.dominguez 8 months ago

Answered by david 8 months ago