how do I configure thunderbird to save email files in specified folders?
I have two hard drives in my computer with Linux installed on each as separate boots. I don't always have access to the internet so I need to save my emails on my computer. How do I get Thunderbird on each boot to read and save emails to the same files? In other words one installation needs to have the default directories changed to be exactly same ones as the other.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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Decide on a place that is accessible to both your boots. Choose which profile you wish to carry on using. Copy it to that location.
The easiest way to go about the next step is probably to use the profile manager to tell each thunderbird what profile to use. An alternative is to directly edit the profiles.ini file to point it to the new location. You'll have to do this twice, once for each of your two thunderbird installations.
This article tells you about the profile and has a link to use of the profile manager.
Thanks for the reply. I am close but still need a bit more direction.
As instructed in the article(s), I Created a folder in the desired location and copied the desired profile there. Then I created a new profile as explained. The article said to open the profiles.ini file and change the location to the new one. It was already correct since I created the new profile to point to the desired location. Then I started Thunderbird as the article said to do and it still asks me to create a new account. How do I get Thunderbird to recognize and use the new profile?
Bear in mind that I haven't used Thunderbird in this installation before.
Thanks.
Modified by roga
I strongly recommend you use the profile manager.
Each of your two Thunderbirds needs its own profiles.ini file. Each of those needs to be tweaked to point at the common shared profile. The profile manager will do this automatically for you. I suspect you have created a new profile in its non-standard location and neither Thunderbird knows to look for it. That's where their individual profiles.ini files come in.
For some reason (of my own doing, no doubt) the Default=1 was not present after the new profile in the profiles.ini file. Then it was a matter of changing IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0. I tried it several ways and finally hit on the correct combination. I have yet to do it on the second installation of Linux but now I know I can do it and will get that done in short order. Many thanks for the great help. This will make things much easier.
I got both installations working yesterday. Everything was fine except that I couldn't get a second login on one installation to work. This morning, I checked emails on each installation and it worked fine except for the second login on one. Then Thunderbird quit working completely on either installation. I can boot to the default profile but not to the shared profile. I need this computer to work without having to daily need to re-do the email functions. Thanks for the help but I can't be fixing this every day. I'll just stay with one email on one installation and be happy with that.