Legimet suggested:
> Use the "create profile" wizard. Click next until you see a "choose folder"
option.
Progress. In the intervening time, I had deleted the proflies.ini file, and
now when I get the Profile Manager popup, there's an icon depicting a
person's head & shoulders instead of the previous unhelpful suggestion,
"default.".
However, I also tried starting icedove in the interim, and it says that my
profile is missing, even after a restart of Trisquel.
Now, following legimet's suggestion, I can proceed to a visible list of my
actual profiles, all but one of which I have previously renamed to
*.username01, *.username02, ... *.username04; my main profile remains
*.default.
Fearful of destroying months of work, I chose to activate one of the
*.username0? profiles, whereupon I was challenged to supply an email address
and password. I tried my main email and the P/W that I use for authorization
of sudo. No luck. Bear in mind that I was using several different email
addresses in all the five profiles. Profile manager gives no hint of what it
is expecting.
