How to Find Thunderbird Profile Location in Windows 10,7,8.1,Vista & XP

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Maybe you have heard about the profile location. The profile folder is the location where Mozilla Thunderbird keeps all data. This folder consists of address books, message-oriented data, and other settings required for Thunderbird configuration. However, Thunderbird’s single profile can keep single or more than single account details within RSS, news, mail etc. The user profile is automatically created by Mozilla Thunderbird at the default location if you do not pursue Profile Manager for creating the Thunderbird profile at the desired location.

To find Thunderbird profile proper location is not that much typical if your following steps are right. So, let’s begin to find out profile folder in Thunderbird inside different operating systems.

Thunderbird Profile Location in Windows XP/2000

Follow the following steps:

1. Click on the Start Menu.
2. In Run wizard, write %APPDATA% under the Run tab.
3. Click on the OK tab, the Windows explorer wizard will be investigated.
4. Open Thunderbird within this Window then clicks on the Profiles option.
5. If the multiple folders are showing within this tab then, it means you have Thunderbird multiple accounts within the system. And locate account which is required.

You can also directly approach to the Thunderbird profile within the same system with the help of the following path:

C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows user name>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>

In case of hidden folders like Application data folder, there is a need to make these folders visible or detectable. For this follow the following steps:

• First, open Windows Explorer.
• Opt for “Tools“.
• In folder options, follow View.
• Then apply “Show hidden files and folders“.

Thunderbird Profile Location in Vista, Windows 7, 8.1 and 10

1. In the Windows, go to Start menu.
2. In the Search box write %APPDATA% command.
3. Now, follow “Roaming” explored within results then click on Roaming.
4. The Profiles contains multiple folders, each represents individual account for multiple users.

The direct method to get Thunderbird profile is shown below:
C:\Users\<Windows user name>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>\

The hidden AppData folder has to move into the accessible mode by using the below procedure:

• First, open Windows Explorer window.
• Click on Organize option.
• Select Folder and Search the Options.
• Do follow Folder Options.
• Under the View option, select Show hidden files and folders.

Location of Thunderbird Profile in Linux/Unix

The Thunderbird folders location under Linux or Unix systems is shown below:
~/.thunderbird/<Profile name>/

These are the hidden folders which are handled by Nautilus that is a default file manager. Make hidden folder reachable by “View -> Show Hidden Files”.
The symbol {~} represents the Home folder for the current user.

Find Thunderbird Profile in Mac OS

The location of the Thunderbird Profile folder is given by:
• ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<Profile name>/

OR

• ~/Library/Application Support/Thunderbird/Profiles/<Profile name>/
• ~/Library is the home folder of Macintosh systems

Location of Thunderbird Folders with Error Console

• In Thunderbird wizard choose “Tools” -> “Error Console”.
• Components.classes[“@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1”].getService( Components.interfaces.nsIProperties).get(“ProfD”, Components.interfaces.nsIFile).path
• Copy the above code in error console (at extreme top position).
• Click the Evaluate button.
  Follow the code more attentively; a single mistake may lead to failure. After executing this code within the console section, the location of the Thunderbird profile can be found. In case you don’t find, select the option “All” from the toolbar.

Another Method to Locate Thunderbird Folder

The default file formed by Thunderbird is Profiles.ini. It is used to find the location of all users’ profiles also helps to find out the profile that is the default profile for the system.

In Windows this file present at parent mode of “Profiles” folder. If the file gets deleted unintentionally then, the new Profiles.ini file will be accessible after a restart of Thunderbird.

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