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Accessing emails on another partition or hard drive.

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I installed Ubuntu on a USB and it will not load my emails from D:. I then created a partition on the same hard drive and had the same problem. TB will load the account name, but not any folders - inbox and the rest.

I installed Ubuntu on a USB and it will not load my emails from D:. I then created a partition on the same hard drive and had the same problem. TB will load the account name, but not any folders - inbox and the rest.

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I hope you have a backup of your Thunderbird profile. How did you go about loading the profile in Ubuntu's installation of Thundebird? Sharing a Thunderbird profile between Windows and Linux is not something I would advice anyone to do, but if you won't take no for an answer, you've been forwarned and should therefore proceed knowing you are responsible for your data.

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I did not do anything with TB profile, it comes installed with Ubuntu 20.04, I only set "Settings > Server Settings > Local Directory: to D:. You are the second person to "assume" I moved the profile and I don't understand why????

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Assumptions are made when relevant and important information is left out, since we can't read minds. What is stored in D? Mbox files, whole profile folder?

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"it will not load my emails from D:" only emails are stored on D:. Account Name

   Drafts
   Drafts.msf
   Inbox
   inbox.msf
   msgFilterRules.dat
   popstate.dat
   Sent
   Sent.msf
   Trash
   Trash.msf

That is everything, no files connected to TB are on D:.

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You could try deleting those msf files while Tbird is NOT running, then relaunch it.

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I have 2 of 4 laptops with Windows 10 that I use regularly and both have TB installed and accessing D: (they even access the backup USB that I store files on every night) without any problem, that makes me think that Ubuntu is reason TB is not working. I will try deleting .msf files after I back up. When I initially set up TB on Ubuntu, everything works, but when I reboot, then only the account names show up and nothing I do, including redoing Local Directory will get it working again.

At this point, I don't know a whole lot about Linux, but it appears to be ancient and incapable of doing a lot of things.