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Can not import public keys on Thunderbird Mac

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I am working on both a Windows 10 computer and on a MacOS 10.15.7 I believe - I do not have it in front of me right now).

Getting my profile from the Win-version over to the Mac-version was ok enough. Just irritating that I had to enter all passwords again.

But it did not bring my encryption certs over. So I have been trying to export and import, but it will not work. I am pretty sure I am missing something very obvious (and probably something really easy for others), but I am kinda stuck.

P.S. Ideally, we should be able to store our complete profile anywhere we want and it should be possible for two computers to use it at the same time. Then I could choose my own server somewhere to be my storage and have both computers use same settings. This should of course not include emails as that is done via IMAP, so it is already shared. But the profile with accounts, passwords and encryption keys should be part of it.

I am working on both a Windows 10 computer and on a MacOS 10.15.7 I believe - I do not have it in front of me right now). Getting my profile from the Win-version over to the Mac-version was ok enough. Just irritating that I had to enter all passwords again. But it did not bring my encryption certs over. So I have been trying to export and import, but it will not work. I am pretty sure I am missing something very obvious (and probably something really easy for others), but I am kinda stuck. P.S. Ideally, we should be able to store our complete profile anywhere we want and it should be possible for two computers to use it at the same time. Then I could choose my own server somewhere to be my storage and have both computers use same settings. This should of course not include emails as that is done via IMAP, so it is already shared. But the profile with accounts, passwords and encryption keys should be part of it.

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I have been trying to export and import, but it will not work.

You'd need to provide more details about your problem.

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we should be able to store our complete profile anywhere we want and it should be possible for two computers to use it at the same time.

See https://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC#Moving_from_Windows_to_OSX_or_Linux