Moving Large Profiles To Another OS/Machine
Created a new Ubuntu 24 something machine. Thunderbird was installed with SNAP. SNAP Sandbox Invalidates Decades of Tutorials on Migrating Profiles. Uninstall Thunderbird with SNAP Reinstall Thunderbird with apt-get
Try to Export on my Mac my 4 email account profiles to a .zip files. One of them is 38GB, so this won't work.
Try copying the the folders to a USB Drive and then moving them over to the user/<name>/.thunderbird folder.
Why can't I just drop them in there and then start thunderbird and it loads everything and doesn't ask me to provide a password for my email accounts? I mean wouldn't that be ideal?
What's the correct procedure?
Created a new Ubuntu 24 something machine.
Thunderbird was installed with SNAP.
SNAP Sandbox Invalidates Decades of Tutorials on Migrating Profiles.
Uninstall Thunderbird with SNAP
Reinstall Thunderbird with apt-get
Try to Export on my Mac my 4 email account profiles to a .zip files. One of them is 38GB, so this won't work.
Try copying the the folders to a USB Drive and then moving them over to the user/<name>/.thunderbird folder.
Why can't I just drop them in there and then start thunderbird and it loads everything and doesn't ask me to provide a password for my email accounts? I mean wouldn't that be ideal?
What's the correct procedure?
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Although I am a Linux newbie, these steps should work (although I've never used SNAP):
- click help>troubleshootinginformation
- scroll down to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder'
- note the file location. this is where your Thunderbird's default profile is.
- exit thunderbird
- copy the old profile to the same folder as the default profile
- start TB and click help>troubleshootinginformation
- scroll down to 'profiles' and click 'about:profiles'
- click the 'create profile button
- click next
- enter a short name for profile, such as OLDPROFILE
- click the choose button to locate and select the old profile you copied
- click finish and activate the profile