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Thread ID: 79941 2007-06-06 07:57:00 Thunderbird 2 problems bpt2 (6653) Press F1
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556679 2007-06-06 07:57:00 I want to upgrade from Thunderbird 1.5 to 2 but when I do my folders and mail all disappear and I just can't work out how to get Thunderbird 2 to look in the right folder. If I uninstall Thunderbird 2 and reinstall Thunderbird 1.5 I get everything back as before. So what's going on? I win WinXP 2 and ZoneAlarm. I have two email accounts which presumably account for the subfolders 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0-1.1 bpt2 (6653)
556680 2007-06-06 10:54:00 to find your profile type in %Appdata% in 'Run' it will take you to application data. then click on Thunderbird and the click profiles folder and look for a folder with random text and numbers such as r85znodr.default and copy and paste it to a somewhere then install Thunderbird 2 and paste the folder back in the profiles folder if not already there.

If you type in %Appdata% in 'Run' it will take you to application data. then click on Thunderbird and click profiles (the configuration settings file not the folder) it comes up a text document as:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=C : profile location

Either type or copy and paste the location of your profile folder in 'path=' and change 'IsRelative=1' to 'IsRelative=0'
then save and Thunderbird should access the right profile next time it opens.
spaceman8815 (4112)
556681 2007-06-06 12:20:00 Can't seem to get it to work and now I get the message that Thunderbird is aleady running when I try to start the program even straight after booting up. bpt2 (6653)
556682 2007-06-06 13:53:00 Somehow all fixed after uninstalling, regcleaning and reinstalling. Don't ask me how or why. bpt2 (6653)
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