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How to transfer account colors to other installs

Thunderbird Import and export settings
Mapenzi replied
rbli63
rbli63

Version 153 brought account colors to the desktop app.

Is there any smoother way to transfer just these settings, no more, no less, to other machines, other than copying the whole profile? I'm using TB on 3 different pc's, of which one has a special profile.

Right now I made screenshots of all 7 accounts + color. I can do it by hand but that's rather cumbersome.

Version 153 brought [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird-desktop#w_thunderbird-153-esr-153-meadow account colors] to the desktop app. Is there any smoother way to transfer just these settings, no more, no less, to other machines, other than copying the whole profile? I'm using TB on 3 different pc's, of which one has a special profile. Right now I made screenshots of all 7 accounts + color. I can do it by hand but that's rather cumbersome.

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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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I'm trying to find out where they've hidden everything. I agree, Screenshots of the colour pop up window would be useful because it contains the rgb colour information.

The developers have currently only displayed that colour in 'Account Settings', 'Folder Pane', in Unified Folders - eg: expand Unified Inbox to thin strips to left of account and also in 'Cards View' so easy to see which account by colour. But for some unknown reason they have not at time of typing this, added the option to the 'Table View' which is inconvenient because you cannot link the colour in Folder Pane to anything in Table View.

If I find out anything I'll post info.

Michel T
Michel T

Remarks : I don't have thunderbird 153 so I can not confirm.

According to AI , it would be in prefs.js file like follow :

user_pref("mail.identity.identityX.color", "#HEXCODE");

And here are a 3 lines example for 1 account : user_pref("mail.account.account2.identities", "identity2"); user_pref("mail.identity.identity2.useremail", "yourname@domain.com"); user_pref("mail.identity.identity2.color", "#4a90e2");

rbli63
rbli63 Pemilik Soalan

Thanks guys. Meanwhile, I just set all pc's (2 laptops and 1 desktop) next to each other and just manually put the example settings of all 7 accounts on the other two. Not that much work really.

I also searched for several variations of `mail.account.id1` in all `*.js` in all subfolders of Thunderbird both in Program Files and in AppData\Roaming. It does find a whole bunch of properties for each id, but nothing with color.

Mapenzi
Mapenzi
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Michel T said
According to AI , it would be in prefs.js file like follow : user_pref("mail.identity.identityX.color", "#HEXCODE");

Here in both v153.0.1 and v153.0.1 there are no identity color entries in the prefs.js files. Maybe this was true for old Thunderbird versions with the "Account Colors" add-on?

Tanya soalan

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