My portable usb drive has died, and I am currently in the process of getting an RMA from the manufacturer to send it to them and get it fixed or replaced.
In the meantime however, I need to get my Thunderbird Portable settings to a local version of Thunderbird. I really need all the emails, settings, templates, and Lighting data from the Thunderbird Portable to the local Thunderbird.
Running it off of a new hard drive partition is not an option. Buying a new usb drive is also not an option. I already have a local version of Thunderbird installed, it does not have any profiles or other settings currently. I just need a way of getting the necessary Profile settings etc from the Portable version to the local version to use for the next month or however long it takes to get my replacement drive.
I can't just do the reverse of copying the local settings to the Thunderbird Portable. The local Thunderbird will not open after copying all the profile information from the Portable Thunderbird.
I only have email access for the next 2 days using a temporary setup that will be unavailable past that. Though I will have the hard data available past that, I won't be able to access it.
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It sounded like you said you already copied the profile and it didn't work, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work! - Can you detail exactly what you did/copied? Thanks.
I did an exact reversal of the directions to get the settings from the local to the portable.
So I copied everything from: portableapps\thunderbirdportable\data\profile
To the: user\application data\thunderbird\profiles.
That's wrong... you should've copied everything inside:
portableapps\thunderbirdportable\data\profile
to
user\application data\thunderbird\profiles\[8-characters].default\
That could be what you meant to say.
Yeah that worked that time.
It took getting it re-installed and started up with at least something so that it would create the [8-characters].default folder there. It wouldn't just let me manually create a folder.
It also needed the clean install as copying the files the first time corrupted it and it would not start. Even though they had been deleted, the computer restarted etc.
Oh well, got it running now.
Thanks for the help. It was a relief to see it working.
Yea, I think it also creates a Profiles.txt somewhere that details the exact folder name, that's why it had to create it itself. Glad you got it working!!
You can also copy the profile to a more "simple" location instead of 10 folders down and then run the profile manager to point TB to the profile. Run command "thunderbird.exe -ProfileManager".