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Originally Posted by slowcoach
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Cheers for that.
Only had a brief look at it, but will get round to having a proper look at it later. It did inspire me to look into how & where the Windows versions of Firefox & Thunderbird reference their profiles. As a result, I think I now know how to do the same thing between 32 & 64bit XP as well [or other versions of Windows, if anyone else wants to try it].
Note: I haven't actually tried it yet, so make a backup copy of your profile before you try it.
In your alternate version of Windows [XP x64 in my case, though I would expect it would work for Vista as well, unless MS has changed where Application Data is put], open the relevant files listed below [just paste the whole line into either the Run window or the filename box in the Open File dialogue of your favourite text editor].
%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini
%userprofile%\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles.ini
You'll need to have run whichever prog you're dealing with already on your alternate install of Windows, so that it will have created a profile, then edit the .ini file. Example:
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[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/7nygrovw.default
[Profile1]
Name=NameOfProfileYouWantToUse
IsRelative=0
Path=X:\Path of your existing Firefox Profile
Default=1
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The profile name for Profile0 is randomly generated by Firefox. Speaking of profiles & Firefox, whatever happened to the Profile Manager? I seem to remember there being 1 in earlier versions, but can't seem to find it now.
