Maybe a red herring: I was in the middle of doing a Documents folder backup when I decided to open Thunderbird for some reason. Got an Unable to Load Profile type of mes… (read more)
Maybe a red herring: I was in the middle of doing a Documents folder backup when I decided to open Thunderbird for some reason. Got an Unable to Load Profile type of message. And my attempts at a fix seem to just send me further down a rabbit hole. I started out by renaming my profile.ini file, but I really didn't know what the heck I was doing and possibly caused more harm than good. Then I tried to find my profile file/folder itself, using the Thunderbird > Troubleshooting > Profile Folder path and doing an import from inside TBird but that ended up with various problems such as drilling down to the profile folder from within TBird but then when I clicked Select Folder in Thunderbird, that didn't trigger any sort of import.
I also spent a good deal of time trying to find my AppData folder, finally being able to view it (a hidden folder, apparently), and saw several recently-dated profile types of folders, but again, I couldn't manage to "hook up" any of those folder/files from starting inside TBird and selecting Import... I ended up just stuck inside a folder, not triggering any Importing activity.
Finally I found a profile folder at a higher level on my PC than inside that long AppData Roaming Thunderbird path. THIS profile was inside: D:\DOCS\Thunderbird\Profiles
Now THAT folder I managed to get an Import to trigger. But the result was an Error Message telling me to go find my Error Console. Can you please see the attached and tell me there's hope that this was at least the right file but just poor results that I can fix somehow???
The following is my copy/paste of the text I see in the Error Console display that's in my screengrab, in case it helps you see it better:
1765349209272 addons.xpi WARN Checking C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\distribution\extensions for addons
WebGL context was lost. 2 Troubleshoot.sys.mjs:727:17
Content-Security-Policy: This site (https://www.mozilla.org) has a Report-Only policy without a report-uri directive nor a report-to directive. CSP will not block and cannot report violations of this policy. thunderbird
downloadable font: Glyph bbox was incorrect (glyph ids 441 459 695) (font-family: "Open Sans" style:normal weight:700 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://updates.thunderbird.net/media/fonts/opensans-bold.woff2
downloadable font: Glyph bbox was incorrect (glyph ids 459) (font-family: "Open Sans" style:normal weight:400 stretch:100 src index:0) source: https://updates.thunderbird.net/media/fonts/opensans-regular.woff2
Uncaught (in promise) NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND: Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]
_recursivelyCopyMsgFolder resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:652
_recursivelyCopyMsgFolder resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:661
_mergeLocalFolders resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:634
_importServersAndAccounts resource:///modules/ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:243
ThunderbirdProfileImporter.sys.mjs:652