A while ago I wrote about the ProfileManager application created by J. Griffion. This application provided a new UI to managing profiles in Firefox, but it can also do so in Thunderbird. The trick is it needs to be setup as a separate application/short-cut and passing Thunderbird as an argument. On my Windows 7 system I have the following short-cuts:
- “C:\Program Files (x86)\profilemanager\profilemanager.exe” – This launches the ProfileManager for Firefox which is default.
- “C:\Program Files (x86)\profilemanager\profilemanager.exe” thunderbird – This launches the ProfileManager for Thunderbird
So now I am able to run multiple versions of Thunderbird at once on different profiles. This is handy as I needed separate profiles for each build to check on issues I’ve been having with the Thunderbird account setup tool in Thunderbird 5 and 7. More on this later this week, still awaiting some feedback about this particular issue.
I’m currently trying to retrieve old profiles in Thunderbird and that path,nor any other ,does not find ProfileManager.
Vista Home Premium SP2.
You need to download and install the ProfileManager application. You can get it here.
Does the profile manager work on windows7 64bit??
Yes, it should work fine. Keep in mind there is currently not a Windows 64-Bit version of Thunderbird.
There is indeed a 64 bit version of Thunderbird 7.0.1 (Earlybird), it can be found here http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Thunderbird:Download
Enjoy 🙂
However, just like the Firefox Nightly Win x64 these are NOT official builds so like any other developmental build use at your own risk.