Hi all,
I am a long-time Thunderbird user (normal version, not portable version), and have always kept my Thunderbird (TB) profile segregated on a dedicated data drive vs. on the regular system drive under my Windows user profile. For example, whereas a default TB install would put one's profile under "C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default.???\", I have always pointed it to "D:\My E-mail Profile\" where I've kept my profile for easy backup.
Anyway, I am now wanting to convert to a Thunderbird Portable (TBP) install so I can go from machine to machine with the same USB drive, and have all my offline e-mail instead of just new stuff. Great, easy enough. So I am reading the documentation about TBP, and it seems by default that TBP stores a profile in the Data\profile directory off of the TBP install directory. But I'd like to leave my existing profile intact, and simply point TBP there instead of moving the existing profile into the Data\profile directory off of the TBP install directory. With regular TB, I'd simply use the TB Profile Manager (-profilemanager flag) to point it to the correct location. But I've seen a posting here that seems to suggest TBP does not seem to use the Profile Manager.
Anyway, can anyone provide some guidance about this? Can I indeed have a profile in whatever location, and simply point TBP to it like I can do with a regular TB install. Or must a TBP profile forcefully be located in the Data\profile directory off of the TBP install directory? If the former is possible, how can I do it given that the TB Profile Manager might not work for TBP as a posting here seems to suggest? By manually editing files?
Any guidance you can provide will be appreciated. I have almost a decade of mail under my current TB (normal install) profile, and I really want to make sure I do not run into any hiccups when moving over to TBP. Thanks!
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