Then I read that MozBackup 1.5.1 has problems and that 1.5.2 beta is preferable - I've always used 1.5.1. Somewhere else it said the same thing, almost, but it was registry.dat that should have been created and that's not there either.
I've gone round in circles - I saw (paraphrasing) "after you've installed Thunderbird open it once to make sure profiles.ini is created" but there's no profiles.ini to be found in the x86 folder. Also, I don't remember seeing this "default-release" option before.Įventually it went thru the process successfully but when I open Thunderbird this is what I see - I'm sure that in the past Thunderbird opens as it was when I backed it up, not as a new blank program that needs the email a/c setting up :-/ I have now tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox, Thunderbird, and MozBackup multiple times, and running MozBackup multiple times, and the same thing happens each time.I have used MozBackup for years to restore Thunderbird after a new laptop or a reinstall of Windows, but this time it has failed, over and over.įirst, it couldn't find the pcv but it could when I went into Browse and re-selected the file. It has all the data from Firefox Synch, except that (as before the attempt at using MozBackup) all of my carefully curated folders of bookmarks from over a decade of use are gone (all the bookmarks appear to be there, but there is no organization or folders). Firefox has the tabs I opened on this machine before trying to restore the profile from my other machine. Thunderbird has no email profiles nor any saved emails, it is a perfectly clean new version asking me to set up a profile. I used MozBackup to backup my profiles on my old machine and restore them on this machine.Įxcept when I open Firefox or Thunderbird, nothing has been restored. I downloaded both Firefox and Thunderbird to my new machine. This time, I am moving from a Windows 7 machine (but with up-to-date Firefox and Thunderbird). I have used Firefox and Thunderbird for many years, and have always used MozBackup when I upgraded to a new computer.
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