Thunderbird profile access not possible

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Albert.Berlin

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I wanted to replicate my Thunderbird setting from Windows as a guest in Parallels, in order to put it on a new Windows notebook. I started with Mozbackup. It did not work. Neither with Priotecs TBBackup. So I wanted to copy the Thunderbird profile to a network drive. And was astonished that Windows answered with access forbidden. What do I have to change?
 
This might depend on how you have sharing set up, and what access permissions you might have on the destination folder on the Mac side that you tried to copy to.

Test things out by first trying to copy your Thunderbird profile folder to somewhere else within your virtual Windows setup, such as to your Windows desktop.
* If that generates the "access forbidden" error, then you know that something is weird on the Windows side.
* If that works just fine, then it sounds like you need to look at your sharing setup and your folder access permissions on the Mac side. To check your sharing setup, in Parallels, click Virtual Machine -> Configure, then select Sharing in the list on the left. To check your Mac folder access permissions, on the Mac side, select the folder in question and click File -> Get Info, then look at Sharing & Permissions at the bottom of the info dialog.

Hope this helps,
 
It is worse: I cannot even copy the profile anywhere as it is forbidden for me. I can only get there from within the Windows.pvm as far as I know. And this Windows nstallation does not allow me access to this user files.
 
Okay then, this sounds like a problem with your Windows setup that has nothing to do with Parallels.

Follow-up questions for you:
* Is this your own computer? Do you have full control and administrator access?
** If so, the easiest way to do this would be to change the permissions within Windows on the folder you want to copy to give yourself full control. Right-click the Thunderbird profile folder, click Properties, select the Security tab, then select your username on top and click Full Control -> Allow on the bottom. Then you should be able to copy the folder, no problem.
** If not, then it's unclear why your Thunderbird profile has been created in the appdata folder for another user. Talk to your system administrator about what's going on, and explain what you're trying to do, and they should be able to help you.

Cheers,
 
It *is*m own computer, a virtual machine under Mac OS X. I cannot even see the documents and settings folder as this already is forbidden for me. I *am* the system administrator of all of my PCs and of coarse also of my virtual PCs. No I cannot give it free access by right clicking it in Explorer: "This folder cannot be given free"
 
* Which version of Windows are you using?
* What is the path to the Thunderbird profile folder? -- It *should* be under C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Profiles for Win XP, for instance.

Another possibility occurs to me -- did you install this Windows within Parallels, or was this installed on the hard drive and used with BootCamp, and now you're using this with Parallels? This might affect how users are recognized by Windows.
 
This were good questions indeed:
My Parallels has Windows 7 Home Premium SP1. And there the profiles are under C:\Users\<Windows user name>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>\ and no more under C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Thunderbird\Profiles.
*This* file is accessable for me. This evening I will find out wether the export to a XP machine will work. Thanks for your patience.
(It could have been more complicated as I indeed use two different Windows installations on my Mac: One true bootcamp install and a second imported version in order to avoid booting to get to the other side. It cost me another license from Microsoft though.)
 
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