Thanks for your answer, Sebastien. I think you nailed it. There was not enough free space to copy the profile and the profile was not copied. I had tried to softlink my old profile from .thunderbird info snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird but that did not work, as I described, and it still doesn't.
However, moving the thunderbird profile instead of softlinking did solve the problem. The maybe a problem, though, since some people like myself have massive profiles with years of emails, and users are warned about the root space they need for the upgrade, but not the space in the home directory. Specially if several users share the computer. Regards -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2056434 Title: Thunderbird profile not migrated to snap Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Today's update installed the thunderbird snap and removed the thunderbird binary but it did not migrate my thunderbird profile. Now I don't have access to any old mails anymore. Looking at ~/.thunderbird: $ cat profiles.ini [Profile1] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=ao6t0qef.default Default=1 [InstallFDC34C9F024745EB] Default=ji04wv64.default-release Locked=1 [Profile0] Name=default-release IsRelative=1 Path=ji04wv64.default-release [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 Version=2 ji04wv64.default-release is the folder that should have been migrated. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/2056434/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
