The 'advanced' button under Message Storage is only for POP accounts.

Thank you David,

That solved my problem.

During installation I got so happy when, after having entered my name, email and password, Thunderbird automatically found my email provider and all the data about my account. But ... helas ... I did not notice that it had not understood my account is POP.

The upshot: I had to reinstall the "old" way with all the data to fill in.

I use the wonderful program Thunderbid since almost two decades and still dread to move from one PC to a new one.

ChG

If you use Windows, and leave the profile in default location, moving to new PCs is easy. Here is the guaranteed set of steps: - exit TB on old PC - copy c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird to external device - install TB on new PC with a version similar to the version on old PC and exit Thunderbird - copy the Thunderbird folder from external device to c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming on new PC to overwrite the default Thunderbird profile. - restart TB and everything will be there.

David, Your answer is quite clear and logic. Despite that, it does not work.

I conclude it does not work, because when I have performed your procedure and started TB on the "new PC", then the normal installation dialogues begin; with what's your name, email, pw etc.

I attach here the file profiles.ini as it is in the "old PC" and in the "new PC" since they differ. Note that the "new PC" is a very old laptop where, certainly, Thunderbird once was installed. But it was certainly uninstalled here.

Indeed, this puzzles me a lot. Hopefully you have time for any more hint.

Christer

old PC Profiles.ini ------------------ [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=Gustaf IsRelative=0 Path=E:\proj\Thunderbird\profile

'new PC Profiles.ini ------------------ [InstallD78BF5DD33499EC2] Default=Profiles/4qqnwcq4.default-release Locked=1 [Profile1] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/fnydxtq4.default Default=1 [Profile0] Name=default-release IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/4qqnwcq4.default-release [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 Version=2

The problem is because the profile on old pc was not on the default C drive. The c drive's Thunderbird folder does not have the profile, and Thunderbird, on being started, looked to drive E for the profile. Since it wasn't there, it started from scratch. To fix this easily, copy the thunderbird as before, with TB not running, and have drive E:\proj\Thunderbird\profile accessible.

David,

Thnx. It seems you are getting close.

So, on the new PC you suggest to create E:\proj\Thunderbird\profile. There is but one difficulty: the "new PC" has only one drive, its C:-drive.

Is there any way to modify the contents from E:ROAMING/Thunderbird so that it looks like coming from the standard C-drive roaming/thunderbird? If so, then it wold work, wouldn't it?

Ch

Okay, this is a little 'dirty', but works: Copy contents of the profile at e:\proj\thunderbird\profile on old PC and paste into the contents of c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\Profiles/4qqnwcq4.default-release Do this when TB is NOT running. That should set all okay.

David,

Your last suggestion solved everything: TB has been moved from an "OLD" to a "NEW" pc. It took me some reinstallations due to errors on my side.

I found out that TB does not remove the Thunderbird information in the %appdata% when unistalled.

When I prepared this answer I rediscovered the -P command-line parameter of Thunderbird. If you use it then you can make a batch-file that is "determinate", that is you do not have to copy the 8-bit stochastic part of the profile's path into the batch file. The batch-file I used before this is shown in my pdf-notes found at

https://sky.telia.no/s/0200af87e15ebf54d0a87d3299c0b10fe7d

Again, thank you David for your kind support. To move Thunderbird with profile and mail-messages at other catalogues than default is now easy for me.

Regards, ChG

You're very welcome. I was glad to assist.