location of profiles

[sailor18]

I need to know where in a normal windows7 setup the profile files reside. My computer crashed. Data survived and has been transferred to a new computer. But my profile, containing all my POP mail files apparently got left behind. I have the old hard drive and my techies will help me look for it, so it would be helpful to get an exact path address.

Then, if I find it, I will have to know where in my new computer (Win 10) to put it so that a new download of Thunderbird will find and use it.

TIA

[DanRaisch]

See this article for information on the location of the standard location for a Thunderbird profile -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

[sailor18]

Thanks. That was just what I needed. Now I'm going to folo that link about moving profiles. I assume that I cannot just copy the profiles folder, if found, into the roaming folder on my new machine. Could it be that simple?

[DanRaisch]

This link may be helpful -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ ... hunderbird
For a concise, less detailed version of the process, see this thread --
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 5#p7251375

For an alternative approach, see tanstaafl's posts in this thread -- http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14209121