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  1. Bug #2056668
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Comment 3 for bug 2056668

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Michael Neuffer (neuffer) wrote : Re: [Bug 2056668] Re: Thunderbird Snap migration loses user profile

On 3/11/24 10:30, Skia wrote:
> Here is how I worked around this:
> * close thunderbird, make sure it's not running in the background
> * `rsync -raxPHAX ~/.thunderbird/ ~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/`
> * edit `~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/profiles.ini` to make sure the only profile listed here is the one with the data (the biggest folder in `~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird/`)
> * run thunderbird
>
> So far, everything seems to be in order, including contacts, calendars
> on multiple accounts, sieve filter and message redirect plugins.
>
 Unfortunately this has not worked for me.

Before I had also tried moving the whole ~/.thunderbird folder to
~/snap/thunderbird/common/ (which does essentially the same thing as
your rsync)

I just get the error message that you can see in the attached screenshot.

When I move back the empty profile I get what you'd expect: An empty
profile with no settings etc.