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I cannot get thunderbird to run on my computer (it runs fine on my wife's computer). I keep getting the profile can't be loaded error. I have tried the fixes recommend here but none wored.

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I cannot get thunderbird to run on my computer (it runs fine on my wife's computer). I keep getting the profile can't be loaded error. I have tried the fixes recommend here but none worked.

I cannot get thunderbird to run on my computer (it runs fine on my wife's computer). I keep getting the profile can't be loaded error. I have tried the fixes recommend here but none worked.
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That message indicates that the profile has been tampered with or moved from another PC improperly. If you are willing to start over, click to c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming and DELETE the folder named thunderbird. Do this with thunderbird not running. Then restart thunderbird and it should create a baseline profile. If you had transferred from another computer, we can assist, probably, in getting this fixed. Tell us more.

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