Problems migrating Thunderbird profile to custom folder on a new computer (Linux Fedora)
I have problems migrating my Windows 10 Thunderbird profile to a new computer running Linux. On the new computer, I want to put the profile into a custom folder, not the… (read more)
I have problems migrating my Windows 10 Thunderbird profile to a new computer running Linux.
On the new computer, I want to put the profile into a custom folder, not the standard folder (which would be /home/torben/.var/app/net.thunderbird.Thunderbird/.thunderbird in my case)
Here's what I did:
I installed Thunderbird 128.13.0esr under Fedora Linux 42 using flatpak.
Upon first startup, I aborted the mail account setup process
Opened Help/Troubleshooting information ... about:profiles
Create new profile ... Choose folder (I am translating everything from my German language version)
--> That's where an error message occurs: "/home/torben/.thunderbird not found ..." (interestingly, this folder simply does not exist (yes, I know how to view hidden files) although about:profiles also says that the "root folder" of the two already existing profiles default and default-esr is inside /home/torben/.thunderbird !?)
Nevertheless, in the profile assistant I can choose the folder (/home/torben/Dokumente/Gemeinsam/Documents/Briefe/Thunderbird_Profiles/tj63nudj.default) containing my migrated profile
The profile assistant tells me that my personal settings and data will be saved in /run/user/1000/doc/e9915464/tj63nudj.default (?)
After finishing the profile assistant, I can see the newly created profile in about:profiles, but it says "This profile is currently used by another application and therefore cannot be deleted" (what other application?)
I click "normal re-start" in the upper right corner of the about:profiles tab
After restarting, I open the about:profiles tab again. Now I can click on "run profile" under my newly created profile and Thunderbird opens a new window where everything works fine: All the migrated mails are there, I can log into my usual imap accounts etc.
I can close both windows, restart Thunderbird again and again and everything stays fine
BUT after some time (about 10 minutes) Thunderbird won't (re)start anymore and displays this error:
"Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To use Thunderbird, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, restart your device, or use a different profile."
The error persists after rebooting.
This error seems to be related to that whole manual migration process, because when I simply follow that mail account setup assistant after a clean re-install of Thunderbird, I can keep using the program without any issues (although the /home/torben/.thunderbird folder isn't created either) ...
Would be very grateful if someone had an idea how to solve this problem ... Thanks in advance!