Moving Thunderbird Profile to Another Partition E
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Good evening everyone,
Today I wanted to uninstall the latest version of Thunderbird Supernova v 115.2.2.
My Thunderbird profile was originally placed on my Partition E, which allowed me to avoid, in case of image restoration, affecting my Thunderbird profile.
Well, I eventually reinstalled the latest version of Thunderbird on C (which doesn't suit me!!), and relocated my Thunderbird profile: so far, so good (I recovered everything)
Originally, my technician placed my profile on E and I would like to put it back that way. I've read a lot of tutorials on this, but I'm a bit lost.
I think that keeping the Thunderbird profile safe on another partition is a very good security measure.
Thank you for your help - if possible, slow and explicit.
I'm starting to lose my mind ;-))
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Good evening,
everything is explained here https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/profils-la-ou-thunderbird-conserve-messages-et-aut#w_deplacer-un-profil
Moving a profile You might sometimes want to move a profile or ask Thunderbird to use a profile stored in a different location. Quit Thunderbird. Move the profile folder to the desired location (if you are restoring a backup of a profile, this step is not necessary; just take note of the current location of the profile you wish to restore). Open the profiles.ini file in a text editor. The file is located in the application data folder for Thunderbird: The path is ~/Library/Thunderbird/ for macOS. In the profiles.ini file, locate the section of the profile you just moved. Modify the line Path= to indicate the new location. If you are switching from a relative path to an absolute path, the direction of the slashes may need to change. For example, on Windows, absolute paths use the backslash (\), while relative paths use the forward slash (/). Modify the line that contains IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0 Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.Best regards
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Good evening,
It is disarmingly simple.
You are on Windows according to your screenshots.
Close Thunderbird, this can only be done if it is closed.
1° - You can put your profile wherever you want, without restrictions.
2° - Give it any name you want.
3° - Click on the Windows start icon and in Search programs and files; or click on the magnifying glass on the Windows taskbar and type: Thunderbird.exe -p
4° - This will open a small internal program for Thunderbird, which allows you to choose the profile location.
5° - Check the profile name, the small program allows you to give it a name, make sure the names match.
It’s the same for Firefox, Waterfox, Librefox, you just need to write: firefox.exe -p; etc.
Regards.
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Hello and thank you,
I looked around a bit.
So I guess I need to go to create a profile since I don't immediately see the location to choose!!?
Hello,
I've been looking for really solid arguments in favor of moving a Thunderbird (or Firefox...) profile...
-On a small SSD, and even otherwise, logic dictates that attachments should be deleted while archiving elsewhere those that we want to keep.
-Regarding hacking protection, it is supposed to be increased by the random profile name, but I never understood how: no one prevents searching for this profile using wildcards.
-On corruption or reinstallation of the system partition, aren’t we supposed to schedule a daily backup of all data to an external medium (even if the profile was on another partition)? It is true in this regard that a script for this scheduling is easier if the data of all software is gathered in a dedicated partition.
Maintaining an up-to-date system image continuously is burdensome, inefficient if done by proprietary software whose settings are no longer on the corrupted system partition; in all other cases, there won't be much gain: indeed, data on another partition won’t be lost, but most software will still have to be reconfigured so that the registry entries take into account, in particular, this dedicated path, and the time saved compared to overwriting the new profile with that of an external backup is not significant.
About backups, a participant had asked me to create more or less sophisticated backup scripts for Firefox and Thunderbird (backing up the last 3 dated days in Thunderbird, choosing to back up only if there are new emails and to back up either only the emails or the entire profile, measuring and displaying the size of folders before and after backup, and for Firefox, in addition, isolated backup of configuration files so as to overwrite the relevant ones, such as credentials, without affecting the rest of the profile, one of the scripts backing up both Firefox and Thunderbird).
The more "advanced" ones use XXCOPY (which just needs to be downloaded) instead of ROBOCOPY integrated into Windows; they can be found in the Batch section of this forum, I can repost them online if you're interested.
Well for your two possibilities, I give up.
For Léon_Blum's option, it’s certainly disconcertingly easy, but he doesn't copy the entire contents of my profile in E. and I am starting over on a Thunderbird to recreate (totally blank)
With Bentrop's method, I'm struggling with the Profile.ini file to modify
I don't know if both Profile1 and Profile0 need to be modified!
So the original one: below
then I started to modify its path but only on [profile0] : (below)
My question is as follows: does [Profile1] also need to have the same path?
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