![]() I am now completely mystified as to OAuth. That worked to get TB started on the new PC. So which password did TB want when setting up the new account? I found a copy of the old password and typed it in. Folks who helped me do this said to erase the old passwords from Password Mgr. I'd just recently been forced to go to OAuth instead of my old passwords. When I set up TB on the new 22.04 PC it asked for name, email, and password. I went into troubleshooting and tried to find a place to pick profiles.īTW - This brings up another mystery. Brought the new profile back over since it didn't seem to make any difference. No sign of the old profile I wanted to use. I temporarily moved the new profile off the PC entirely and it STILL came up looking just like a new TB install. Import settings and data into Thunderbird With Thunderbird's import tool, you can import settings and data from a variety of sources including Thunderbird profiles, other applications or files. It came up with the new, nearly empty profile. How to move Thunderbird data (accounts, messages, passwords) to a new computer. Added a few letters to the existing profile, the one I didn't want to use. Finally got the old profile to the new PC. How does snap complicate the process of importing the old FF profile to the new PC? Now that I found where the Firefox profile is stored (inside the snap folder) can I just copy/paste as described above for TB? Or is it more complicated than that? ![]() On the 22.04 PC the FF profile was found inside the snap folder: Home/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/fault. Reboot the PC and Thunderbird came up on the new computer just like the old one. Then go to the "new" PC, delete or re-name the existing profile, then paste the imported profile into the ".thunderbird" folder. Does the path mean that TB is not yet part of snap, and I can import the old TB profile just like in the past? All I had to do last time was go to Home, View Hidden Files, find the old profile, and copy it to a thumb drive. On the 22.04 PC I found the TB profile: Home/. I want to import TB and FF profiles from a PC running 18.04 to a PC with a fresh install of 22.04.Ī few years ago I imported both profiles successfully from a 16.04 PC to an 18.04 PC but that was before snap. ![]()
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