How to Backup and Restore profile
Locate your profile folder
* On Windows XP : Profile folder: C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
* Windows 7: Profile folder: C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters.
Backing up your profile
Just follow these steps to backup your profile :
1. Close Thunderbird completely (All windows)
2. Make a copy of your profile folder to a CD-RW disc or a separate hard disk you can also folder on existing Hard disk itself for backup purposes.
Move an existing profile or restore a backed up profile
It's possible to move the location of a profile folder. This could be useful if you have a backed up profile folder somewhere on your hard drive and want to tell Thunderbird to use that as your profile. This section explains how to do this.
1. close Thunderbird completely (all windows).
2. Move the profile folder to the desired location.
For example, on Windows XP, move the profile from C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default to D:\Stuff\MyMailProfile. If you are reading these instructions because you want to restore a previously backed up profile, this step isn't necessary. Just note the current location of the profile you want to restore.
3. Open up profiles.ini in a text editor. The file is located in the application data folder for Thunderbird:
* On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is %AppData%\Thunderbird\
* On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Thunderbird\
4. In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved. Change the Path= line to the new location. IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you switch from a relative path to a non-relative one, the direction of the slashes may need to change (e.g. in Windows, non-relative paths use backslashes, whereas relative ones use forward slashes).
5. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0.
6. Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.
Locate your profile folder* On Windows XP : Profile folder: C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
* Windows 7: Profile folder: C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters.
Backing up your profile
Just follow these steps to backup your profile :
1. Close Thunderbird completely (All windows)
2. Make a copy of your profile folder to a CD-RW disc or a separate hard disk you can also folder on existing Hard disk itself for backup purposes.
Move an existing profile or restore a backed up profile
It's possible to move the location of a profile folder. This could be useful if you have a backed up profile folder somewhere on your hard drive and want to tell Thunderbird to use that as your profile. This section explains how to do this.
1. close Thunderbird completely (all windows).
2. Move the profile folder to the desired location.
For example, on Windows XP, move the profile from C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default to D:\Stuff\MyMailProfile. If you are reading these instructions because you want to restore a previously backed up profile, this step isn't necessary. Just note the current location of the profile you want to restore.
3. Open up profiles.ini in a text editor. The file is located in the application data folder for Thunderbird:
* On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is %AppData%\Thunderbird\
* On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application
Data\Thunderbird\
4. In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved. Change the Path= line to the new location. IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you switch from a relative path to a non-relative one, the direction of the slashes may need to change (e.g. in Windows, non-relative paths use backslashes, whereas relative ones use forward slashes).
5. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0.
6. Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.
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