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hendra98
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Migrating from Portable Tbird to Standard Tbird

After using Portable Tbird for several weeks, I decided to install the full Tbird into my harddisk permanently. The question is: how do I migrate all my settings and emails from Portable Tbird to my full Tbird?

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Hi hendra98 Normally I would

Hi hendra98

Normally I would say that you should just copy your profile folder to your new version and possibly your GPG folder if you use it.

However I am having trouble myself doing this from portable to portable so I would just suggest to you to hang on a while until I find out what is going wrong here.

https://portableapps.com/node/2677

You could watch that thread or I could let you know here when I find out what is going wrong with the new version.

Justice

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I tried it on portable to

I tried it on portable to portable by simply copying the whole Data folder to the new portable location and it worked well.

However, on portable to full version tbird I cannot figure out where to put the Data folder or the profile subfoders to.

Appreciate if anyone can advise me here. Thanks.

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I got it now. I copied the

I got it now. I copied the profile subfolder into Documents and Settings\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\[...].default and it worked.

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