Just got an iPhone and since installing it and trying to send a
picture from iphoto...

My Thunderbird email accounts are messed up...

I got no address email addresses..

I have no accounts..

I had two.. one was for work and the other home. (So two smtp
servers.)

I have a gmail account... but can't access it by thunderbird
either...
So where in thunderbird do I tell it where to store my email
locally... (Hopefully I can point to the folder where my email is
stored.)

Same for the other account where email had been downloaded to this
computer.. I assume that TBird has file stores for each email
account.
Where are the email addresses that it used to know by typing they
seem
to be lost.

Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)
Mac OS X 10.5

On 22-07-2008 15:30 CET, SpreadTooThin composed this enchanting statement:
> Just got an iPhone and since installing it and trying to send a
> picture from iphoto...
>
> My Thunderbird email accounts are messed up...
>
> I got no address email addresses..
>
> I have no accounts..
>
> I had two.. one was for work and the other home. (So two smtp
> servers.)
>
> I have a gmail account... but can't access it by thunderbird
> either...
> So where in thunderbird do I tell it where to store my email
> locally... (Hopefully I can point to the folder where my email is
> stored.)
>
> Same for the other account where email had been downloaded to this
> computer.. I assume that TBird has file stores for each email
> account.
> Where are the email addresses that it used to know by typing they
> seem
> to be lost.
>
> Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)
> Mac OS X 10.5
>

Your data is stored at: user/Library/Thunderbird


--
Kind regards,
Melchert

(MacOS 10.3.9 / Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 2.0)

On Jul 22, 7:30*am, SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just got an iPhone and since installing it and trying to send a
> picture from iphoto...
>
> My Thunderbird email accounts are messed up...
>
> I got no address email addresses..
>
> I have no accounts..
>
> I had two.. one was for work and the other home. (So two smtp
> servers.)
>
> I have a gmail account... but can't access it by thunderbird
> either...
> So where in thunderbird do I tell it where to store my email
> locally... (Hopefully I can point to the folder where my email is
> stored.)
>
> Same for the other account where email had been downloaded to this
> computer.. I assume that TBird has file stores for each email
> account.
> Where are the email addresses that it used to know by typing they
> seem
> to be lost.
>
> Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)
> Mac OS X 10.5

I'm reading this knowledge base article on lost profiles.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile

It just seems to be missing some instructions of MAC OS X.
For the Win applications there appears to be a profile manager. I've
yet to find that application on my mac.
I thought it was in the Thunderbird mail application itself.. Looked
through the menu's and found nothing.
Maybe its a separate piece of software?

Anyhow I found the directories where the profiles were found and I
also found a few Caches.
/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/jpkl7w2t.default
./Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/jpkl7w2t.default
./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/8ijugk5i.default
./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/h3gir8pg.default
./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/k8r1ofw4.default
./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/tly41r4m.default
./Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/tly41r4m.default

I assume the FireFox applications are not relevant.
Ok.. so why are the names encrypted..
These are directories that contain profile data..
The notes say something about copying data so.. what would the source
and destination copy be.. and back up what first?

On Jul 22, 8:28*am, SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 22, 7:30*am, SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Just got an iPhone and since installing it and trying to send a
> > picture from iphoto...
>
> > My Thunderbird email accounts are messed up...
>
> > I got no address email addresses..
>
> > I have no accounts..
>
> > I had two.. one was for work and the other home. (So two smtp
> > servers.)
>
> > I have a gmail account... but can't access it by thunderbird
> > either...
> > So where in thunderbird do I tell it where to store my email
> > locally... (Hopefully I can point to the folder where my email is
> > stored.)
>
> > Same for the other account where email had been downloaded to this
> > computer.. I assume that TBird has file stores for each email
> > account.
> > Where are the email addresses that it used to know by typing they
> > seem
> > to be lost.
>
> > Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)
> > Mac OS X 10.5
>
> I'm reading this knowledge base article on lost profiles.http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
>
> It just seems to be missing some instructions of MAC OS X.
> For the Win applications there appears to be a profile manager. *I've
> yet to find that application on my mac.
> I thought it was in the Thunderbird mail application itself.. Looked
> through the menu's and found nothing.
> Maybe its a separate piece of software?
>
> Anyhow I found the directories where the profiles were found and I
> also found a few Caches.
> /Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/jpkl7w2t.default
> ./Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/jpkl7w2t.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/8ijugk5i.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/h3gir8pg.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/k8r1ofw4.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/tly41r4m.default
> ./Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/tly41r4m.default
>
> I assume the FireFox applications are not relevant.
> Ok.. so why are the names encrypted..
> These are directories that contain profile data..
> The notes say something about copying data so.. what would the source
> and destination copy be.. and back up what first?

It would seem that the files I want to use as a profile are:
Thunderbird/Profiles/tly41r4m.default/Mail
Because I seem to recognize my email structure of folder there and the
file sizes look correct.

So how do I set this profile back to the profile that thunderbird
uses?

SpreadTooThin wrote:
> On Jul 22, 7:30 am, SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just got an iPhone and since installing it and trying to send a
>> picture from iphoto...
>>
>> My Thunderbird email accounts are messed up...
>>
>> I got no address email addresses..
>>
>> I have no accounts..
>>
>> I had two.. one was for work and the other home. (So two smtp
>> servers.)
>>
>> I have a gmail account... but can't access it by thunderbird
>> either...
>> So where in thunderbird do I tell it where to store my email
>> locally... (Hopefully I can point to the folder where my email is
>> stored.)
>>
>> Same for the other account where email had been downloaded to this
>> computer.. I assume that TBird has file stores for each email
>> account.
>> Where are the email addresses that it used to know by typing they
>> seem
>> to be lost.
>>
>> Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)
>> Mac OS X 10.5
>
> I'm reading this knowledge base article on lost profiles.
> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
>
> It just seems to be missing some instructions of MAC OS X.
> For the Win applications there appears to be a profile manager. I've
> yet to find that application on my mac.
> I thought it was in the Thunderbird mail application itself.. Looked
> through the menu's and found nothing.
> Maybe its a separate piece of software?
>
> Anyhow I found the directories where the profiles were found and I
> also found a few Caches.
> /Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/jpkl7w2t.default
> ./Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/jpkl7w2t.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/8ijugk5i.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/h3gir8pg.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/k8r1ofw4.default
> ./Library/Caches/Thunderbird/Profiles/tly41r4m.default
> ./Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/tly41r4m.default
>
> I assume the FireFox applications are not relevant.
> Ok.. so why are the names encrypted..
> These are directories that contain profile data..
> The notes say something about copying data so.. what would the source
> and destination copy be.. and back up what first?


Mac OS X

Close the application completely and make sure that it is not running in
the background. Assuming the program is installed in the "Applications"
folder, launch Terminal ("Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal") and
enter the command starting with / after the prompt in Terminal:

* (Firefox) /Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
-profilemanager
* (Mozilla Suite) /Applications/Mozilla.app/Contents/MacOS/mozilla
-profilemanager
* (SeaMonkey) /Applications/SeaMonkey.app/Contents/MacOS/seamonkey
-profilemanager
* (Thunderbird)
/Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird -profilemanager

If the above command doesn't work, try again, but include -bin as shown
in this example for Thunderbird:

* /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin
-profilemanager


folder names are encrypted (salted) to make it more difficult for a
hacker to remotely access your data (thats in your profile tho)

always back up before making copies or moving data, better safe than sorry.

> * * ** /Applications/Thunderbird.app/Contents/MacOS/thunderbird-bin
> -profilemanager
>
Thats the FIX! Thank you!