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How do I create a new profile to use the data in my old profile?

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peter42sohn
peter42sohn

Trying to solve aperformance problem I tried to move my profile from C:\Users\Peter and Carol\Profiles\sjig3laj.default to "C:\Users\Profile\." -- when that did not work, I was unable tomove back to the original location, TB telling me "Local directory path ... is not suitable for message storage". How do I get back to the config that worked before ? (was just slow)

Trying to solve aperformance problem I tried to move my profile from C:\Users\Peter and Carol\Profiles\sjig3laj.default to "C:\Users\Profile\." -- when that did not work, I was unable tomove back to the original location, TB telling me "Local directory path ... is not suitable for message storage". How do I get back to the config that worked before ? (was just slow)

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david
david
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The normal location would be c:\users\PeterandCarol\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles\sjig3laj.default Knowing exactly what you moved would be useful. The error message you mention doesn't appear to be from Thunderbird. Instead, Thunderbird would more likely post the cryptic, 'no profile found' or similar wording. If you moved ONLY the sjig3laj.default folder you could just move it back.

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