Paul in Houston TX wrote:
MayBee wrote:
Does not work.

Thunderbird -profilemanager

Opens Thunderbird not the profile manager.

Now what ?

If you default installed then there is a Prof Mgr icon in programs.


There's also a profiles.ini folder where you can
add entries. The entries can use "relative" paths,
which are relative to the location of "profiles.ini".

But it also supports absolute paths, so you
can make a reference to an ABCD1234 folder
on the D: drive.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

And you don't even need to use Profile Manager, if
there is only one profile and that profile is on
the D: drive. You just need to edit the profiles.ini
and "move" the folder that way.

When you install Thunderbird

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file

it might start like this. The default uses relative paths.
The install process makes a randomly named abcd1234 folder.
A Windows search on profiles.ini, will show up to three
different files belonging to different Mozilla projects.
You select the profiles.ini belonging to Thunderbird.

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/abcd1234.default

You could experiment with:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\abcd1234.default

You would copy over the abcd1234.default folder,
before running Thunderbird right after you'd edited
the profiles.ini. The profiles.ini stays in the "well
known place", while the abcd1234 folder can be anywhere.
And with one entry total, there's no need for a ProfileManager
attempt.

Paul