{"id":1275,"date":"2020-01-17T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:12:17","slug":"thunderbirds-profile-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird&#8217;s profile manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you experience the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1260\">Thunderbird or packaging bug<\/a> where after an update your mail account no longer appears, you should be able to recover it with the profile manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a terminal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"># thunderbird --profilemanager<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>and you will be presented with all the profiles Thunderbird has created when first run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Thunderbird_Profile_Selector.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Thunderbird_Profile_Selector.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Thunderbird_Profile_Selector-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Select your one (probably the first) and then click &#8220;Start Thunderbird&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You should be back in business. You can remove redundant profiles &#8211; just be careful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you experience the Thunderbird or packaging bug where after an update your mail account no longer appears, you should be able to recover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","tag-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}