iMac Thunderbird Profile Question

[BOBRR]

Hello,

Using Thunderbird on new iMac.

I have, somehow, managed to "install" 2 Profiles, and they do show up.

a. How can I switch from one to the other, easily ?

b. I don't remember all the details of what I did, but let me try:

I was able, playing around with it, create two icons on the Desktop, each one going to
a Thunderbird with a different Profile. Each one only shows one Profile.

But on closing and re-starting, the icons are gone. From the Dock as well as from Desktop.

This seems to be a very prevalent action with (my) Thunderbirds on the iMac.
What I set up, and seem to have working, does not appear or open up upon the re-booting.
It truly seems to be nowhere on my iMac.

I realize I'm doing a poor job explaining this, but any general thoughts ?

Thanks again for help,
Bob

[tanstaafl]

a) Either use the profile manager (its a built-in feature invoked using command line arguments) or install the profile switcher add-on. However, I suggest you consider picking one profile to keep, adding duplicates of the accounts from the other profile to it, and then import any downloaded mail from the old account to its replacement. i.e. merge the two profiles.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_folders
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunde ... eswitcher/

b) I don't have a Mac so its not clear to me what could go wrong. It's possible to add command line arguments to a shortcut to specify the profile to use (ignoring the settings in profiles.ini used by the profile manager to specify where profiles are, and which one to default to).

If you look at the properties for the shortcut/icon does it have a -profile command line argument followed by the location of a profile?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Running_from_ ... hunderbird (ignore the fact it mentions USB drives)

c) I have no idea why the shortcuts disappeared from the desktop when you rebooted. Perhaps you created them on a virtual desktop. See https://www.howtogeek.com/210803/how-to ... shortcuts/ . I assume the profiles remained when the icons/shortcuts disappeared.

Try creating a new shortcut/icon and see if that remain when you reboot.