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moving Profile folder (Thunderbird) to another directory in the same computer
Hi.
I trying to move my Profile folder (Thunderbird) to be able use GoodSync. I moved Profile folder to Users/Shared/ and modified ini file in Thundrebird directory.
But it is not working. I changed property of my Profile folder to "Shared", so it have to be visible . I think the problem is ini file .
Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=Profile
IsRelative=0
Path=Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
Default=1
I trying to move my Profile folder (Thunderbird) to be able use GoodSync. I moved Profile folder to Users/Shared/ and modified ini file in Thundrebird directory.
But it is not working. I changed property of my Profile folder to "Shared", so it have to be visible . I think the problem is ini file .
Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=Profile
IsRelative=0
Path=Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
Default=1
ASKER
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0
Nothing happens, it still open Thunderbird without anything and asking to create a new account.
StartWithLastProfile=0
Nothing happens, it still open Thunderbird without anything and asking to create a new account.
What are you trying to do? Do you want to use the profile that you moved?
You might need to change the relative path to fixed path.
from:
Path=Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
to:
Path=/Volumes/Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
That's assuming if that's where your drive is mounted.
It's probably better and possibly easier to make a hard link to your profile path instead of moving it.
ln /Volumes/Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
You might need to change the relative path to fixed path.
from:
Path=Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
to:
Path=/Volumes/Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
That's assuming if that's where your drive is mounted.
It's probably better and possibly easier to make a hard link to your profile path instead of moving it.
ln /Volumes/Machintosh HD/Users/Shared/Profile/7c
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The first suggestion didn't work. What do you mean with a hard link to my profile? Should I left ini file as it and link to the profile file from Thunderbird ?
The first suggestion didn't work. What do you mean with a hard link to my profile? Should I left ini file as it and link to the profile file from Thunderbird ?
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