The main Windows 7 user profile crapped out on start-up with the shop PC this morning. Had to recreate the profile. Got most of the stuff working again, but Thunderbird opens like a fresh installation. Had a bunch of subfolders in there and e-mail addresses I'd really like to recover if possible.
I went through their FAQ's & support and came away with a bigger headache than when I started. Anybody know where the files would have been stored, and what I need to do to get it to use them again?
If you still have (or can restore) the old Windows profile, they keep the mail and config info in there.
EDIT: the forum garbled this, so put it back together so it looks like an actual path: It should be in (backslash)Users(backslash)your username here(backslash)AppData(backslash)Roaming(backslash)Thunderbird(backslash)Profiles
There will be a directory there that has a nonsense name (random characters followed by ".default") and in there is everything you need.
You can shut down t-bird then copy all that data over to the new profile directory and it should work.
Wae,
Thanks. The folder and files made it over to the new profile, but no dice. I think I might be hosed here.
Are those folders locally (ie should be in the user profile) or are they on the server you get your mail from?
Tim,
They are all local.
Rob - I don't have it handy, but if you launch it by going to start >run and type "thunderbird -profilemanager" you should be able to select that other profile to start.
Or, you can edit the profiles.ini file in the directory above, and make sure the profile 0 (default's) path is set to the correct profiles/xyzabc.default.
Wonko,
Profile 0 is pointing to the correct folder. I'm wondering if the folder wasn't overwritten.
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