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Phillip Pearson

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Sharing Firefox / Thunderbird profiles between OS installs Posted: May 27, 2008 2:40 AM
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Now I have both Vista and XP installed, and they can happily access each other's NTFS disks, I've got things set up so that they share a single set of Firefox and Thunderbird profile folders. The trick here is to edit your profiles.ini file and point one of the installs at the other's folders, or move the folders away somewhere else and point both of the installs at the new shared location.

In Vista the profiles.ini files are at:

\Users\username\appdata\roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini
\Users\username\appdata\roaming\Thunderbird\profiles.ini

In XP they are at:

\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini
\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles.ini

Using Thunderbird as an example, I moved all the folders under Profiles into C:\phil\mozilla-settings\thunderbird and edited the profile entries in profiles.ini to look like this:

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=C:\phil\mozilla-settings\thunderbird\xyzzy.default
Default=1

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