WHY WHY WHY change the format of profiles without an easy import for old ones?
I am so incredibly disappointed with thunderbird, long such an excellent email program. WHY did you make it so difficult to load previous profiles? I have read and tried several methods to get old profiles working again, but so far no success. WHY not make an easier way to import them? Over a decade of saved messages, from all relatives, all passwords/logins (I would email myself) and many saved articles and jokes. I am so disappointed they have not made this easier (if indeed it is possible, as yet no article I have followed has worked). So disappointed.
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The format of profiles hasn't changed much, but rather the ability to run older versions of TB on profiles that were used by newer versions of TB 68. Launch the Profile Manager with the added --allow-downgrade command and select the profile.
But if you just want to read an old profile, start Profile Manager, without the --allow-downgrade command, create a new profile, name it, then Choose Folder... and select the old profile folder.
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The format of profiles hasn't changed much, but rather the ability to run older versions of TB on profiles that were used by newer versions of TB 68. Launch the Profile Manager with the added --allow-downgrade command and select the profile.
But if you just want to read an old profile, start Profile Manager, without the --allow-downgrade command, create a new profile, name it, then Choose Folder... and select the old profile folder.
I have tried to get Tbird to run with SLED 15 SP1 using the method described above and it will not start. I have cd-ed to the .thunderbird directory and tried the command with the "options" and still no joy.
Was this intended to be ransom-ware? What is it going to cost me to get my rules, folders and emails back?