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Changing the directory where e-mail messages are stored

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Hi, I just installed Thunderbird on Fedora Linux and I tried to change the default directory where Thunderbird stores e-mail boxes for each e-mail account.

I managed to do the change, however the directory absolute path which is shown in the local directory field is different from what I just changed, even though the change has been successful and I can see the content of my inbox. For example the shown path is

                             "/run/flatpak/doc/lad91b03/mailserver-name.org" 

(this absolute path doesn't exist) and the real path is something like:

                         /home/username/Documents/Mail/AppData/Roaming/Profiles/...../mailserver-name.org"

This doesn't happen on Windows...

Hi, I just installed Thunderbird on Fedora Linux and I tried to change the default directory where Thunderbird stores e-mail boxes for each e-mail account. I managed to do the change, however the directory absolute path which is shown in the local directory field is different from what I just changed, even though the change has been successful and I can see the content of my inbox. For example the shown path is "/run/flatpak/doc/lad91b03/mailserver-name.org" (this absolute path doesn't exist) and the real path is something like: /home/username/Documents/Mail/AppData/Roaming/Profiles/...../mailserver-name.org" This doesn't happen on Windows...

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Hola, Revisa si la siguiente consulta puede ayudarte: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1405834 Saludos