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Re: Install problem

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On Tue, 5/20/2025 3:17 PM, John wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2025 10:14:02 -0400, "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/20/25 09:43 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-20 15:24, s|b wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 20 May 2025 12:20:20 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why not use the Export accounts function?
>>>>
>>>> The what?
>>>
>>> A menu entry under Tools.
>>>
>> Tools->Export  Its exports to a file 'Thunderbird_profile_backup.zip'
>> It seems to backup a very large group of folders and files.  Mine was 433 MB.  I've got 5 
>> rss feeds, 5 emails and 8 local folders.
> 
>  
>  Stupid question: does it work when copying TB from a Win-7 box to a
> Macbook Pro machine? 
> 
>  I've tried to do this and I could never get TB to run under the
> MacOSes as it does in the Win-7 environment. It always took hours of
> fiddling and still needed poking about with passwords and permissions
> and stuff.  
> 
>  Okay, I just looked. I don't *have* a "Tools ---> Export" option
> though I do have an Import one, which makes no damned sense to me. Can
> I take it that my Thunderbird is too elderly for this to be available
> to me? 
> 
>  Oh. Well. Bugger that. :)
> 
>  I'm using V 24.0 and the latest seems to be 138.xx so, yes, my copy
> *is* a little elderly. 
> 
>  Maybe I should think of an update? 

When you are moving from one Thunderbird to another, how
are the version numbers arranged ?

Is Windows 7 at TB version 115, while MacOS is 24 ?

That's bound to cause problems. If Windows 7 was 24 and MacOS was 24,
I would think that would work a little bit better. As they're in the
same temporal epoch. Your email provider would have to be "pretty crusty"
and "not particularly secure", for an older version to work.

If there were such a thing as a "Thunderbird_profile_backup.zip",
I would look inside it for a "compatibility.ini" file, as that
contains a stamp as to what level the Profile is at. A TB 24 having
quietly maintained its own profiles, would stamp the "compatibility.ini"
with the 24 number.

If other profiles were floating about the house, like a 115, then
the "compatibility.ini" in that one, should have the higher number.

If you like the performance of a particular one, and if it still
works (OAUTH2 support for GMAIL), then the entire house should
be standardized on that one working version. To run a mix of
versions, some working in the "upgrade" direction on an Export,
others working in the "--downgrade" direction, that's bound to be
a source of major hair loss.

That's a potential problem for MacOS, where the ISA keeps changing,
and the odds of a {68K, PowerPC, Intel, ARM} version being produced
today are slimmer.

One thing that used to piss me off, was visiting the Wireshark site
from my (MacOSX) Mac, and none of the versions of Wireshark were marked
with information as to which MacOS or hardware they would work with.
Testing the files one by one, trying to find the right range
of versions, that really really sucked. If only some idiot could
have marked the items in the web page, as they created and tested them.

   Paul

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Install problem knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-20 06:50 -0400
  Re: Install problem "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 13:06 +0200
    Re: Install problem "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-05-20 15:25 +0200
      Re: Install problem John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-05-20 20:17 +0100
        Re: Install problem "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-05-20 15:57 -0400
  Re: Install problem Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-05-20 12:20 +0100
    Re: Install problem "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-05-20 15:24 +0200
      Re: Install problem "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 15:43 +0200
        Re: Install problem "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-05-20 10:14 -0400
          Re: Install problem Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-05-20 17:39 +0100
          Re: Install problem John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-05-20 20:17 +0100
            Re: Install problem Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-05-20 13:21 -0700
            Re: Install problem Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-23 01:40 -0400
          Re: Install problem Dummy me knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-20 15:31 -0400
        Re: Install problem "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-05-20 20:45 +0200
      Re: Install problem Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-20 16:15 +0100
        Re: Install problem "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-20 18:53 +0200
          Re: Install problem Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-05-20 17:54 +0100
      Re: Install problem Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-23 03:30 -0400
  Re: Install problem "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-05-20 07:48 -0400
  Re: Install problem Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> - 2025-05-21 21:42 -0400

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