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I have successfully transferred my Thunderbird Profile to a new computer using the article on the website. (Using the instructions in Thunderbird itself didn't work.) I now have my Address Book and Folders set up, but none of the emails from before I installed Thunderbird on the new computer. How can I get these back?

Hello, could I ask how to to install the latest version of Thunderbird as I uninstalled to update, as a monthly donator a new download asked for donation of $15 which I payed and still cannot get a download to install. Regards Lloyd.

On 1/15/2025 I had to re-install Thunderbird due to an issue I was having. When it re-installed it it completely changed the way it looks and operates. I downloaded the new version from Thunderbird esr channel. Both the Mac and Win10 versions are 128.6.0esr. As you can see they display completely different and when you "tag" an email in the win10 side, it highlights the entire subject line. In the Mac side when you "tag" an email it adds a little tag out to the right of the email subject line. Can I get the Win10 version to display and act the same as the Mac version? At the start of this, they both were 128.6.0esr versions. both displayed the same and, both acted the same.

Hi, while looking to remove unused files I found two different versions, version 127.0 dated 12/24 and 134.0.1 dated 01/25, can I safely remove the older version ? thanks for any advice.

After searching and following some suggestions approaches I've consolidated these into the following steps which worked for me:

Copy the Profile to a Disk/USB

1. Mount the disk/USB. This needs to larger than the profile selected
2. On W10, open TB -> Troubleshooting Information -> Profiles -> about:profiles.
3. Find the the profiles where 'Default Profile' is Yes
4. Click on Show in Explorer (e.g. vx7sjwjh.default)
5. Close TB
6. Copy and paste the folder selected in Explorer to the disk/USB to be used for the transfer.

Install the Profile on the maxOS

1. Mount the disk/USB
2. In Finder, find the mounted volume and copy the profile
3. In Finder, select Go->Home
4. If you can't see Library enter 'command+shift+.'
5. In Library->Thunderbird->Profiles
6. Paste the copied profile

Assign the Profile in TB

1. Open TB
2. Help->Troubleshooting Information->Profiles->about:profiles
3. Create New Profile->Continue
4. Choose a name that has not been assigned. You will see an error 'A profile with this name already exists' if it is not unique
5. Click on Choose Folder
6. Select the folder you pasted
7. Click Done
8. Scroll down until you see the Profile you created (if you don't see it, restart TB)
9. Click on 'Set as default profile'
10. Click on 'Launch Profile'

You should now see your profile

A few weeks ago after an automatic update I ended up having Thunderbird version 131.0.1 installed, I have no idea how this happened. On opening I get a message telling me I shouldn't be using a beta version and that I should revert to the latest general release version (128.4)

Today when I had some free time I downloaded 128.4 and installed it. On opening it it says that I can't use a profile file from a later version with the earlier version. Is there a way to recover from this WITHOUT having to set up the whole profile again from scratch.

Meanwhile I have done a system restore so I am back with 131.0.1 It has not given me any problems so far. Is there a new general release version imminent that will get me back on track?

I would appreciate any help I am not a computer expert, just a user, and find Thunderbird a very good email client.

David Gould

Im ms yvonne torgerson &im 76yrs old &im disabled i can,t speak i can hear &commuicate thanks god please help me with all my setting &profromances on my phone please id appreicate very much

I recently got a new iMac computer for my wife and set up Thunderbird on it. Her previous computer had a linux OS. The problem was that we just discovered recently that she did not have all of the email addresses in her address book. So, I endeavored to correct that. I found instructions on the web that told me to copy the abook.map file from her old computer and paste it into the profile folder of her new computer and then start up Thunderbird on the new Mac computer and import an address book, that is the one I just pasted into the profile folder. I did this and the emails addresses in the new address book were there and good. Meanwhile, I was running Thunderbird on the old linux computer at the same time and I noticed at the bottom of the window some small numbers that looked like they were reporting on the number of messages being downloaded. I was puzzled about this. The old computer's Thunderbird did not show any new emails in the normal window. When I went back to the new iMac computer and opened Thunderbird there were no emails in the inbox! Surprise! What happened to our emails? I don't know how Thunderbird works regarding syncing two identical installations of Thunderbird but it occurred to me that this might have caused this problem. Any ideas? Thanks,

Jakan

How I can get access to internet-links via Firefox or Windows Edge to open the links in Thunderbird ---> new installation of Thunderbird at 15.Jan 2025 after total new installation of Windows 11

After new installation of Windows 11 and Thunderbird at 15.Jan 2025 I had to restore my local Folders to get accessions to prior e-mails. With the function Import it wasn't be possible to import the real data. With konto-parameter I could set the file to the prior profiles, but I could only set it to one of multiple subfolders, to get access to the e-mail data. My solution (but not really a good solution): to copy all data of the prior profile to the profile of the new installation (without a function of Thunderbird - manually by the simple Explorer). You need all data inclusive all folders and files in the \Mail\Local Folders\ with all .sbg Files (= SubFolders with SubSubfolders), .msf (name of Subfolders with data) and the data files. (in Explorer all System files and System folders must be visible). I had then problems to reorginize the subfolders then in Thunderbird and to delete data ---> with manually reorganizing, renaming and deleting unnessary data by the simple Explorer this was easier and faster.

The Import Function should be improved - no reply necessary

With the istallation in Nov 2024 (when I had the identical problem) I didn't recognized this problem

Thanks

Hi. On an Active Directory, we deploy Firefox (normal or ESR). It's OK. When we deactivate the link of the GPO, it's supposed to uninstall. But it doesn't (even if we delete the GPO, specifying to uninstall at once).

The gpresult command on each computer doesn't show the GPO anymore, but Firefox is still installed.

( FYI, we used to do that with FrontMotion Community Edition, and it was always working (instal and uninstal). We even just tried the "last" (but old) ESR edition present on the FrontMotion site (CEESR-102), and it works. But FM CE version has stopped being developped. )

So, any idea about why the official Mozilla Firefox version (normal or ESR) doesn't uninstall?

Thanks by advance.

Thunderbird crashes shortly after starting, with the message: We're Sorry Thunderbird had a problem and crashed etc.

The details are below: I noticed that when I click "About Thunderbird" it seems to try to update the version and immediately crashes, otherwise it takes a little longer before it crashes (less than 1 minute) The current version is 128.5.2esr Please help!

Chuck xx@gmail.com (This is my wife's computer. Her email is xx@gmail.com Because of this problem, please send replies to xx@gmail.com)

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