For years I have been carrying over the same profile from version to
version. I don't remember doing so when I installed Mint 20.3.
It is d33shmoz.default

I think I had exported data and contacts from 20.3 and imported the.

Because of the weird way Thunderbird had been behaving, I wanted to switch
profiles to d33shmoz.default to see if there would be any change.

/home/alan/.thunderbird lists this:

Crash Reports
h5xe5swr.default-release
Pending Pings
u5lt5hb4.default
installs.ini
prefs.js-d33
profiles.in
profiles.ini-d33

But when I ran:

$ /usr/bin/thunderbird --ProfileManager

It showed only this:

default-release
Create Profile default
Rename Profile
Delete Profile

profiles.ini contains this:

[Profile1]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=u5lt5hb4.default
Default=1

[Profile0]
Name=default-release
IsRelative=1
Path=h5xe5swr.default-release

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

[InstallFDC34C9F024745EB]
Default=h5xe5swr.default-release
Locked=1

There seems to be an inconsistency.
Is thefe any w\ to get the various profiles to be listed under the manager?

Observations please.

Alan

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On 2/12/22 13:32, this is what pinnerite wrote:
> For years I have been carrying over the same profile from version to
> version. I don't remember doing so when I installed Mint 20.3.
> It is d33shmoz.default
>
> I think I had exported data and contacts from 20.3 and imported the.
>
> Because of the weird way Thunderbird had been behaving, I wanted to switch
> profiles to d33shmoz.default to see if there would be any change.
>
> /home/alan/.thunderbird lists this:
>
> Crash Reports
> h5xe5swr.default-release
> Pending Pings
> u5lt5hb4.default
> installs.ini
> prefs.js-d33
> profiles.in
> profiles.ini-d33
>
> But when I ran:
>
> $ /usr/bin/thunderbird --ProfileManager
>
> It showed only this:
>
> default-release
> Create Profile default
> Rename Profile
> Delete Profile
>
> profiles.ini contains this:
>
> [Profile1]
> Name=default
> IsRelative=1
> Path=u5lt5hb4.default
> Default=1
>
> [Profile0]
> Name=default-release
> IsRelative=1
> Path=h5xe5swr.default-release
>
> [General]
> StartWithLastProfile=1
> Version=2
>
> [InstallFDC34C9F024745EB]
> Default=h5xe5swr.default-release
> Locked=1
>
> There seems to be an inconsistency.
> Is thefe any w\ to get the various profiles to be listed under the manager?
>
> Observations please.
>
> Alan
>
I might suggest just editing your profiles.ini and change the name of default-release to just release.
However I don't think it's used. It might be hidden by TB when it sees the name "default-release" thats why I say change the name.

BACKUP.

PS you have a bunch of prefs in that folder that are not normally there.

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On 2/12/22 19:39, Big Al wrote:
> On 2/12/22 13:32, this is what pinnerite wrote:
>> For years I have been carrying over the same profile from version to
>> version. I don't remember doing so when I installed Mint 20.3.
>> It is d33shmoz.default
>>
>> I think I had exported data and contacts from 20.3 and imported the.
>>
>> Because of the weird way Thunderbird had been behaving, I wanted to
>> switch
>> profiles to d33shmoz.default to see if there would be any change.
>>
>> /home/alan/.thunderbird lists this:
>>
>> Crash Reports
>> h5xe5swr.default-release
>> Pending Pings
>> u5lt5hb4.default
>> installs.ini
>> prefs.js-d33
>> profiles.in
>> profiles.ini-d33
>>
>> But when I ran:
>>
>> $ /usr/bin/thunderbird --ProfileManager
>>
>> It showed only this:
>>
>>                  default-release
>> Create Profile  default
>> Rename Profile
>> Delete Profile
>>
>> profiles.ini contains this:
>>
>> [Profile1]
>> Name=default
>> IsRelative=1
>> Path=u5lt5hb4.default
>> Default=1
>>
>> [Profile0]
>> Name=default-release
>> IsRelative=1
>> Path=h5xe5swr.default-release
>>
>> [General]
>> StartWithLastProfile=1
>> Version=2
>>
>> [InstallFDC34C9F024745EB]
>> Default=h5xe5swr.default-release
>> Locked=1
>>
>> There seems to be an inconsistency.
>> Is thefe any w\ to get the various profiles to be listed under the
>> manager?
>>
>> Observations please.
>>
>> Alan
>>
> I might suggest just editing your profiles.ini and change the name of
> default-release to just release.
> However I don't think it's used.     It might be hidden by TB when it
> sees the name "default-release" thats why I say change the name.
>
> BACKUP.
>
> PS you have a bunch of prefs in that folder that are not normally there.
>
>
h5xe5swr.default-release was created by the botched installer
Copy your d33shmoz.default directory to ~/.thunderbird and add another
entry to profiles.ini:
[Profile2]
Name=myNewProfile
IsRelative=1
Path=d33shmoz.default
Now start Thunderbird with
/usr/bin/thunderbird -P myNewProfile

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:33:55 +0100
dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> wrote:

> On 2/12/22 19:39, Big Al wrote:
>
> > On 2/12/22 13:32, this is what pinnerite wrote:
> >> For years I have been carrying over the same profile from version to
> >> version. I don't remember doing so when I installed Mint 20.3.
> >> It is d33shmoz.default
> >>
> >> I think I had exported data and contacts from 20.3 and imported the.
> >>
> >> Because of the weird way Thunderbird had been behaving, I wanted to
> >> switch
> >> profiles to d33shmoz.default to see if there would be any change.
> >>
> >> /home/alan/.thunderbird lists this:
> >>
> >> Crash Reports
> >> h5xe5swr.default-release
> >> Pending Pings
> >> u5lt5hb4.default
> >> installs.ini
> >> prefs.js-d33
> >> profiles.in
> >> profiles.ini-d33
> >>
> >> But when I ran:
> >>
> >> $ /usr/bin/thunderbird --ProfileManager
> >>
> >> It showed only this:
> >>
> >>                  default-release
> >> Create Profile  default
> >> Rename Profile
> >> Delete Profile
> >>
> >> profiles.ini contains this:
> >>
> >> [Profile1]
> >> Name=default
> >> IsRelative=1
> >> Path=u5lt5hb4.default
> >> Default=1
> >>
> >> [Profile0]
> >> Name=default-release
> >> IsRelative=1
> >> Path=h5xe5swr.default-release
> >>
> >> [General]
> >> StartWithLastProfile=1
> >> Version=2
> >>
> >> [InstallFDC34C9F024745EB]
> >> Default=h5xe5swr.default-release
> >> Locked=1
> >>
> >> There seems to be an inconsistency.
> >> Is thefe any w\ to get the various profiles to be listed under the
> >> manager?
> >>
> >> Observations please.
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> > I might suggest just editing your profiles.ini and change the name of
> > default-release to just release.
> > However I don't think it's used.     It might be hidden by TB when it
> > sees the name "default-release" thats why I say change the name.
> >
> > BACKUP.
> >
> > PS you have a bunch of prefs in that folder that are not normally there.
> >
> >
> h5xe5swr.default-release was created by the botched installer
>
> Copy your d33shmoz.default directory to ~/.thunderbird and add another
> entry to profiles.ini:
>
> [Profile2]
> Name=myNewProfile
> IsRelative=1
> Path=d33shmoz.default
>
> Now start Thunderbird with
> /usr/bin/thunderbird -P myNewProfile
>
>
That enabled me to prove the problem was a corruption in my about.config.

Thank you.

Alan

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:24:10 +0000
pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

According to the MozillaZine knowledgebase, about.config is accessed from Tools->options. My thunderbird does not have options below tools. :(

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:41:47 +0000
pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:24:10 +0000
> pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to the MozillaZine knowledgebase, about.config is accessed from Tools->options. My thunderbird does not have options below tools. :(
>

Stop looking I found it at the foot of preferences. bottom right.

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:24:10 +0000, pinnerite wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:33:55 +0100
> dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> wrote:
>
>> On 2/12/22 19:39, Big Al wrote:
>>
>> > On 2/12/22 13:32, this is what pinnerite wrote:
>> >> For years I have been carrying over the same profile from version to
>> >> version. I don't remember doing so when I installed Mint 20.3.
>> >> It is d33shmoz.default
>> >>
>> >> I think I had exported data and contacts from 20.3 and imported the.
>> >>
>> >> Because of the weird way Thunderbird had been behaving, I wanted to
>> >> switch
>> >> profiles to d33shmoz.default to see if there would be any change.
>> >>
>> >> /home/alan/.thunderbird lists this:
>> >>
>> >> Crash Reports
>> >> h5xe5swr.default-release
>> >> Pending Pings
>> >> u5lt5hb4.default
>> >> installs.ini
>> >> prefs.js-d33
>> >> profiles.in
>> >> profiles.ini-d33
>> >>
>> >> But when I ran:
>> >>
>> >> $ /usr/bin/thunderbird --ProfileManager
>> >>
>> >> It showed only this:
>> >>
>> >>                  default-release
>> >> Create Profile  default
>> >> Rename Profile
>> >> Delete Profile
>> >>
>> >> profiles.ini contains this:
>> >>
>> >> [Profile1]
>> >> Name=default
>> >> IsRelative=1
>> >> Path=u5lt5hb4.default
>> >> Default=1
>> >>
>> >> [Profile0]
>> >> Name=default-release
>> >> IsRelative=1
>> >> Path=h5xe5swr.default-release
>> >>
>> >> [General]
>> >> StartWithLastProfile=1
>> >> Version=2
>> >>
>> >> [InstallFDC34C9F024745EB]
>> >> Default=h5xe5swr.default-release
>> >> Locked=1
>> >>
>> >> There seems to be an inconsistency.
>> >> Is thefe any w\ to get the various profiles to be listed under the
>> >> manager?
>> >>
>> >> Observations please.
>> >>
>> >> Alan
>> >>
>> > I might suggest just editing your profiles.ini and change the name of
>> > default-release to just release.
>> > However I don't think it's used.     It might be hidden by TB when it
>> > sees the name "default-release" thats why I say change the name.
>> >
>> > BACKUP.
>> >
>> > PS you have a bunch of prefs in that folder that are not normally there.
>> >
>> >
>> h5xe5swr.default-release was created by the botched installer
>>
>> Copy your d33shmoz.default directory to ~/.thunderbird and add another
>> entry to profiles.ini:
>>
>> [Profile2]
>> Name=myNewProfile
>> IsRelative=1
>> Path=d33shmoz.default
>>
>> Now start Thunderbird with
>> /usr/bin/thunderbird -P myNewProfile
>>
>>
> That enabled me to prove the problem was a corruption in my about.config.

Then I can suggest moving it out or rename of the ~/thunderbird release
direcory of your choice.

locate 'user.js' | grep pinnerite

Usually if you do any modifications in about.config it used to modify the
user.js and the rest of the time prefs.js contains the other thunderbird
changes depending on what is being modified. Same with firefox.

I got tired of entering my changes when thunderbird and firefox started
with this new directory crap on each release. So I would get a copy of
prefs.js run the app and make my changes. I would then diff the new copy
with the original and pick my changes and put them in my copy of the user.js
file.

MY thunderbird and firefox wrapper checks for user.ps and if does not
exist, creates a ~/app.ps file and creates a user.ps link in thunderbird
and firefox new release back to my .ps file.

For instance my bank checks firefox version and requires me to do a 2 factor
auth to complete my login every time the major release changed. I modified my
~bank/ firefox user.ps to have the release level I want.

Since then I have not had to do the 2 factor chore on each new release.
Seeing that Firefox release level is getting close to 100 I decided to
verify that my bank's web site can/will handle it. So I put
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0");
in my firefox user.ps and all is well.

On 2/13/22 18:51, this is what pinnerite wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:41:47 +0000
> pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:24:10 +0000
>> pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> According to the MozillaZine knowledgebase, about.config is accessed from Tools->options. My thunderbird does not have options below tools. :(
>>
>
> Stop looking I found it at the foot of preferences. bottom right.
>
It's options in Windows, Preferences in Linux.

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