Hi Gene,
This method of backing up the profile is out of date.After you enter
Troubleshooting mode, there is no 'open folder' button anywhere.
On 8/7/2022 10:21 AM, Gene wrote:
This
method of finding and copying the profile folder to a new
installation should work:
It is a long description. New main steps start on new lines.
Open help in Thunderbird, alt h.
Down arrow to trouble shooting information and press enter.
Tab until you get to a button that says open folder and press the
space bar.
You are now in the profile folder.
Back space once.
You should now be on the profile folder.
Copy it to the clipboard.
Close where you are with control f4.
You are now in the main program window.
Close it.
Paste the profile folder wherever you want. You are copying it in
that way just as you copy any other folder.
Uninstall Thunderbird.
Install the version you want.
Follow the same instructions to get to the profile folder and be
at it not in it.
Then alt tab and close the program window.
You will be back in the folders and files list. Delete the
profile folder. Copy the old profile folder folder to gthat
location.
Now close the files and folders list with alt f4.
Open thunderbird again.
You will be back in troubleshooting information.
Use control f4 to close it and you will now be in the main program
window.
See if everything has been transferred.
If so, there is no more to do.
Gene
On 8/7/2022 9:07 AM, Gene wrote:
You
can copy the profile folder to a location outside of the
program, then uninstall the version you are running and install
the one you want. If you delete the profile folder in the new
copy, and paste the profile you saved to the same location, you
will have all your messages, the address book, and I would
imagine anything else, such as add-ons, though I don't know
about add-ons and other items.
Those who know more about this may comment further. I'm not
sure where the profile is in the installed version.
But if you are talking about saving all your messages and
transferring them using a different method, and manually
exporting and importing the address book, placing the profile in
a new copy of the program eliminates the need for all that work.
I'll add that those were my results, playing with the portable
version. I expect them to be the same if you are copying the
profile in an installed version or from an installed version to
a portable version. I haven't verified that.
You may want to manually save what you want to save, then try
the copy profile method so that in case it doesn't work as I
expect, you won't have lost anything.
Gene
On 8/7/2022 8:56 AM, Ron Canazzi
wrote:
Hi Gene,
Of course I have been doing this for years now. BTW, with
Mozilla products, to close windows of any kind, control + W
also works. It never fails.
I do have an old Thunderbird 102.0 executable version on my
old computer. I always download the current release version a
few days after I am updated within a program of any kind
including Thunderbird. I am going to save all my mail and
then do a total uninstall and reinstall of 102.0 and
immediately block any further updates under settings. I will
keep things that way until further notice. Maybe, I'll even
take your advice and run any future full releases as a
portable version first before doing a full install--a kind of
shake down cruise.
On 8/7/2022 9:11 AM, Gene wrote:
Here is a correction. Close the about dialog with either
escape or alt f4. I thought the dialog opened in a new tab
but it is somehow a dialog even though it presents itself as
a web page. It closes in the usual way about dialogs close.
Gene
On 8/7/2022 8:05 AM, Gene
wrote:
It may be that if you have version 91.x and earlier, you
won't update directly to 102.x. The program may first
update you to an earlier version and from that earlier
version the next update may be to 102.exe. But if you
have a recent enough version, you will get an update to
102.exe.
I updated last night. The version I got last night is
102.1.1.
the page is not worded correctly, whatever is meant.
In addition, open the about dialog, alt h, a.
Then switch to browse mode so you can move around the page
like a web page, which it actually is, NVDA key space.
Move to the top of the page, then start down arrowing.
You will see the version number you are using and a little
below that you will see that you are on the main release
channel. The program's own about dialog is telling you
what the situation is.
Closed the about dialog with control f4, not alt f4.
Gene
On 8/7/2022 7:19 AM, Ron
Canazzi wrote:
Hi Gene,
Well that seems to be true--unless you look at the
What's new link.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.1.1/releasenotes/
Here's what it says:
Thunderbird version 102.1.1 is only offered as direct
download from thunderbird.not as an upgrade from
Thunderbird version 91 or earlier.
...and even more confusing:
Version 102.1.1, first offered to channel users on
August 8, 2022 (which is actually tomorrow.)
I downloaded the 102.0 from within Thunderbird a few
weeks ago. Just yesterday, the program auto updated from
102.1.0 to 102.1.1. This is when I first noticed the
status bar issue.
So explain that Gene! It's liked the twilight zone.
On 8/7/2022 4:21 AM, Gene
wrote:
I am using the portable version and, though I doubt
it, perhaps that accounts for the difference.
Whatever the case, in a later message, you said that
the version you are using isn't available on the
download page you were working with. I don't know
where you were looking. If I look on this page:
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
I see links to download Thunderbird.
Here is the first download link and you will see that
it gives the 102.x. version number.
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-102.1.1-SSL&os=win64&lang=en-US
On the page I linked to above, not the download link,
you will also see a get the beta link.has a get the
beta link. If you follow that, the link to download
the beta, the first link offered gives a higher
verssion number as below:
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-104.0b2-SSL&os=win64&lang=en-US
I used the copy link feature of Firefox when I was on
the download links. I am presenting the written out
underlying links, not the English wording you see if
you just look at the page.
I don't know where you are looking but the page I just
gave the link to has correct version availability.
In short, you are using the latest nonbeta version.
Gene
On 8/6/2022 10:48 PM, Ron
Canazzi wrote:
Hi Gene,
I can tell you this. When I use the NVDA keystroke
to read the whole screen for desktops insert + B,
(useful in dialogues and other things that sometimes
don't automatically read) if you listen to all the
verbiage, finally at the very end, the status bar is
read. This means that it is still being displayed
in some form.
On 8/6/2022 10:52 PM,
Gene wrote:
The status bar was not present in the previous
version on my machine and it still isn't.
I'm going to check to see if there is even
supposed to be a status bar any longer. We don't
know if it has been removed.
Gene
On 8/6/2022 9:40 PM,
Ron Canazzi wrote:
Hi
Group,
Has anyone upgraded Thunderbird to the latest
version 102.1.1? If so, can you read the status
bar? I cannot on my system: Windows 11, 64 bit
with latest NVDA 2022.2.
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