Moving Thunderbird profile from a w11 computer to a second new computer w11 vacation home.
I have a window home computer that was upgraded from w10 to w11. I had to buy a new w11 machine at my vacation home because the old one was not upgradeable. I was successful in moving the profile from home to vacation home. But a month later I corrupted w11 on my new vacation machine while loading my earlier version of Adobe Photoshop from their instilling disk. W11 could not be repaired and I had to reinstall new w11 while keeping my files etc. This time Thunderbird would not let me move/use my old profile file. No mater what I tried!!
In the past, I've always moved the profile file "Thunderbird" in Appdata file to the new machine and renaming the installed Thunderbird file with XXX after it. It always worked in the past. My profile file is over 2mb. I've tried using all of the logical import options in this new instillations and only get error messages that it could not import the data and to look at the error console? Which I don't know where that is located. I will look for it in w11.
I think that the only difference (which I don't think should make a difference) is the directory name file difference after "users"
Any help would be much appreciated!!!!!!!
Jim Flora (Long time Thunderbird user and supporter)
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Hello there
Looking at the changed map If you changed the content from these directory name file maps into other directory name file named maps. It s crucial for thunderbird and seeks for the files but it s not the same names on it and is become empty for the software as seek.
Renaming the directory name file map Renaming it into the old name as user1 into the old map again user1. If this directory name file map was changed into something else it has to be the old name again.
Is it been moved If this directory name file map is been moved on the desktop or new laptop then it s a kind of the same issue there.
Thunderbird crashed https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-crashes After a light crash of that operating system win 10 or Win 11 because of the crash or use from heavy software like adobe , thunderbirds directory maps could be named differently at a sudden or the maps could be misplaced at a sudden.
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Hi Jim,
Importing is used after a user has exported a profile. You wrote that you move your profile. Did you export it?
I'm not sure what you are doing when you rename a Thunderbird file or folder, but you should not have to do that. That may be causing a problem. Have you seen these instructions? —
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer
Hello there
Cannot import As you wrote you cannot import. Did you had a profile of more than 2gb of data? Do not use the build in option then. Make copies. Use formatted usb sticks?
Going to the error console Go to Menu >Tools > Developer Tools > Error Console. What does the error console did tell you? The error console is inside thunderbirds software program. That is a build in technical diagnostic tool.
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