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I just removed the thunderbird version from the Ubuntu repositories by running:

sudo apt-get remove thunderbird

I installed thunderbird 78 from the thunderbird site. It did not pick-up the previous profile (it seems to be a self-contained package as it did not require installation). Is there a way to do this manually. I have a lot of mail accounts configured and would prefer, not setting them up manually.

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  • Have you tried an online search for moving Thunderbird profile from one computer to another? Manually transferring an existing profile to a new Thunderbird installation on the same machine might be identical.
    – Jan
    Oct 7, 2020 at 15:29
  • @Joe thanks for the tip. Indeed it should. I have not figured out yet where the new version searches for profiles.
    – Bruni
    Oct 7, 2020 at 16:19
  • Your Thunderbird profile was at /home/<user_name>/.thunderbird. Note the period. It indicates that it's a hidden file. When you uninstalled Thunderbird, you may have also removed that folder - but perhaps not. If you haven't deleted it, you can copy it to the new profile. If you have deleted it, you will need to recreate it.
    – KGIII
    Oct 7, 2020 at 17:20
  • @KGIII The profile of my old installation indeed was and is in ~/.thunderbird. It was not deleted as I did not purge thunderbird. The 78 version of thunderbird however does not pick that profile. Reinstalling v. 68 also gives me back access to my mail accounts. At the moment I have both versions "installed". As I mentioned, I think the 78 thunderbird is a self-contained package that is not really installed.
    – Bruni
    Oct 8, 2020 at 7:43
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    You can copy/paste the profile. You might also be able to change it. Open Thunderbird, click on Help, click on Troubleshooting Information, and then scroll down a bit and click on Profiles. Even if it's not installed, it should tell you where it has stored the profile. Copy your data to that folder. That should sort you out.
    – KGIII
    Oct 8, 2020 at 14:17

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EDIT to reflect change in question:

Thurderbird installed from the site creates a new profile by default on Linux, but it is possible to make it use the original profile.

  1. Open a terminal, change to the folder containing thunderbird and run ./thunderbird -Profilemanager.
  2. Select your profile, set it as default and open it.
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  • the second paragraph, solved it for me. thx.
    – Bruni
    Oct 30, 2020 at 7:59

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