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Can't restore a backup of a profile
My computer had a hardware problem and I had to re-install windows. I have been using a backup system so I have a backup of my thunderbird data in the Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles folder. However the files in my backup profile don't look the same as the files in the profile that gets created when I install thunderbird. I do not know what version of Thunderbird I had but it was obviously much older. I've tried installing many versions in the hopes of finding one that works but so far I cannot get Thunderbird to recognize my data. I've tried creating a new profile and copying the contents from my old profile into it too.
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How many folders are there in the Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles backup? If you have more than one, then you need to identify the correct one, then open it and inside you'll see a file called compatibility. It's a configuration file, so you can open it using Notepad. Paste its contents in your next reply.
Ok I have a zip file of the AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird folder from the computer when it was working.
The directory structure looks like this:
Thunderbird
- Crash Reports - Profiles - aeinq54q.default - calendar-data - crashes - extensions
In the aeinq54q.default folder there are a bunch of files but they mostly seem to have different names than the files in the profile that was created when I installed thunderbird on the newly reformatted computer. The profile after re-installing is called "8cherwcu.default". I assume because I seem to have used a different user-name when I reinstalled windows.
To the specific question you asked: in my backed-up profile folder there is no file named "compatibility". Here is a list of the filenames contained within my backed up profile:
abook.mab
blist.sqlite
blocklist.xml
calendar-data
cert8.db
cookies.sqlite
crashes
directoryTree.json
extensions
extensions.json
folderTree.json
global-messages-db.sqlite
history.mab
key3.db
mailViews.dat
parent.lock
permissions.sqlite
places.sqlite
pluginreg.dat
prefs.js
revocations.txt
search.json
secmod.db
session.json
sessionCheckpoints.json
SiteSecurityServiceState.txt
times.json
virtualFolders.dat
webappsstore.sqlite
xulstore.json
Thank you for your help!
Greg
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Your backup is incomplete then. You should have more folders like ImapMail and Mail in the backup folder, where your messages are actually stored.