Thunderbird 68 won't import old account from ~/.thunderbird folder - thunderbird

I reinstalled my system from ubuntu 20.04 do manjaro.
I saved ~/.thunderbird folder from the old system to an external drive. After, I copied the folder back to home and started Thunderbird it does not seem to see the profile. Although it can read some of the data, like the Address Book but no account settings, no folders, nothing else.
I found the help page
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer
and tried to do it but it doesn't help. Thunderbird found my old profile and it is visible in about:profiles and set as the default profile, so everything looks like thunderbird has read the profile settings but does not understand them

If that fails, in Thunderbird
Edit->Account Settings->Server Settings.
At the bottom of the "Server Settings" tab should be a "Local directory" entry.
Make sure the Local directory MyProfile/Mail/mail.comcast.net (or whatever your profile's appropriate Mail mail-server subfolder is named) matches the full path name of your Thunderbird profile as installed on your new computer. You might have changed it.

This seems to be a known issue, although I have not seen it myself. A colleague has been affected, though.
In brief: what happens if you launch Thunderbird with the -p option? It should list available profiles and let you choose one.
Longer potentially-helpful page:
https://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com/2019/09/i-lost-my-profilemail-on-update-to.html

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ftp-kr - Cannot edit in read-only editor

I cannot figure out how to use the ftp-kr extension for VS Code properly. I have read and re-read the GitHub Wiki and the README documentation and cannot find any other help for my issue. I posted this question to the project Issues on GitHub but have yet to receive a response.
ftp-kr is just a simple extension for editing files via FTP that are located on a remote server. Many other users seem to be using the extension with no issue.
I installed the extension, and then I successfully edited the connection settings (in ftp-kr.json) and successfully made a connection to the remote server I am trying to edit files on.
I opened the FTP-KR: EXPLORER pane to look at all of the files on the server, but if I double-click any of the files to open them and then try to edit them, I am unable to type and just get a warning in VS Code that says "Cannot edit in read-only editor".
I have tried right-clicking on files and clicking the "Download This" button, thinking that maybe I need to download a local copy of the files to edit before uploading the changes. However, whenever I click the "Download This" option on any file in the ftp-kr Explorer, it just gives me an error message that says "[file_name] is not in remotePath".
I tried running the >ftp-kr: Download All command, but it just spits out a notice that says "Nothing to DO".
How do I edit files located on the remote server and save those changes to the server?
P.S. I have tried the solutions found in this question but unfortunately none of them seem to work. Particularly, "code-runner: Run in terminal" is not in my settings and "Edit in Local" is not a context menu item that appears in my editor.
After a number of months, I finally have a solution to this thanks to the developer eventually responding on GitHub. There are a few things going on here.
Any file that a user wishes to modify must be downloaded as a local copy on the user's machine first and then that copy can be uploaded to the webserver via FTP.
ftp-kr cannot auto-download individual files. (Either when they are double-clicked on or through any other method.) It can only download entire directories, and those directories can be changed by using the localPath and ignore options in the configuration file, then stopping and restarting the ftp connection.
The "Download This" context menu option that appears is a piece of non-implemented code. It will not do anything.
>ftp-kr: Download All is the preferred way (by the developer's intent) to download the remote files onto the user's computer. The fact that it was returning an error before was a bug which has now been fixed.
Confusingly, the user can view the filenames and context of every file on the remote file system using a convenient tree view, you just cannot simply download any of those files individually.
In all, this plugin does not provide the functionality that I hoped it would have. (Namely, being able to easily download, modify, and upload individual files.) So I know how to properly use it, I will just be switching to a different plugin for my purposes.

Thunderbird Portable losing imported profile after first opening

I've got a saved profile from Thunderbird, with an IMAP account and lots of mail. I want to import that into Thunderbird Portable so I can read the mail and package it up for other reviewers (it's a forensics job, so the original profile is on a copy of a hard drive).
My procedure is to open a fresh Thunderbird, close it, then copy the contents of the originals's xxxxxx.default folder into the Data\Profile folder of TB (I find that if I don't open and close it first, I don't get the user addons and themes). When I open Thunderbird now I can see their account with all the mail, IMAP folders, themes, addons etc. The problem is that when I close and reopen it, the account settings are still there but all the mail is gone.
All the data from the mail is still there in the data\profile\ImapMail\$account\ folder. I've done comparisons of the before and after state of the folders with Winmerge and can't see anything glaringly obvious that'd make it not show. The original is from Linux and I'm working on Windows 10 but I've had the same problem in the past when both systems have been the same. Taking the account online isn't an option. I've tried choosing 'Work offline' and 'Download and Sync Now'.
Any ideas anyone?
Edit: just to clarify, when I open it after it's been closed, I can no longer see the email or list of IMAP folders. I can however search for mail successfully.
Try moving the IMAP files into an POP account. Thunderbird POP accounts don't re-download everything after a profile move.

AppSrv01 doesnt have write permission

i know that the default profile name when i installed websphere was Appsrv01, I want to create my own AppSrv02 but the location of my IBM Websphere was in C: and i dont have any write permission, i dont have any admin rights also..
using COMMAND-LINE, I want to make my profile folder to be writable, so that my newly created AppSrv02 will be list down in the profile names in my RAD.
Please help me. Thanks
So that's your problem. In order to have a usable profile in WAS, your user must have write permissions. See this link from WAS ND infocenter, it applies to WAS standalone too.
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSAW57_8.5.5/com.ibm.websphere.installation.nd.doc/ae/tpro_manage_nonroot.html
If you cannot change the write permissions to this profile, you'll need to create your own. For this, you can either use WAS Profile Management Tool, WAS CLI or you can create your profile using the Configure profiles... link in the WAS server creation wizard you posted. I'd use the RAD way because RAD validates, within the IDE, the proper permissions that you need to create and use the profile within RAD.
First check whether you have admin rights or not if your using User/Guest profile, by creating any new folder in C drive where IBM WAS is installed.
If you have Admin rights, than right click on RAD run as administrator. It should work fine.
If Profile doesnt show up in drop down, Configure new profile and try checking that way.
If you dont have Admin rights better install RAD in any local drive other than C
Running Eclipse with Admin rights and removing the read-only tick for the AppServXX folder/WAS folder couldn't help me... cause I copied the WAS server from another PC :). So for those of you who want to move / migrate your development environment:
I did a search inside the copied WAS, Eclipse and the project's workspace folder for their old paths (with Total Commander, feed the results into a list) and dragged all the files (except the log ones) into my editor (NotePad++) and did a replace in all open documents for the new paths. It's a bit lucrative, but it took only 10 minutes for me and afterwards the WAS server in Eclipse showed the correct profile and it also did start up well.

Fail to access Modx Manager from a different computer. Says password and username are incorrect

I am new to Modx. I successfully installed and set up Modx on my laptop on localhost using xampp. However I would like to work on Modx on my desktop. I have copied over the htdocs onto my desktop. And have set up my database identically. When accessing Modx Manager, my username and password is said to be incorrect. I am using the same username and password and it works on my laptop (I have checked for typos). I do not understand why I am unable to log in. Can someone guide me so I can successfully work on my Modx on my desktop computer?
Often a stale session from your browser can prevent login. Try logging in from an incognito window.
Also, did you ensure that the MODX install on your desktop has the correct paths in config.core.php files? There's one in your document root, one in your manager folder, and one in your connectors folder.
Furthermore the paths and DB connection info need to be environment specific, in {core_path}/config/{config_key}.inc.php
When you migrated the site to your desktop, did you run the setup program again? Often that helps to fix paths, but you need to normalize the config.inc.php file first.
If you can access the database directly, you can change the hash_class value for your user in the modx_users table to hashing.modMD5 temporarily so that you can manually enter an MD5-hashed password. Maybe there's an issue with the PBKDF2 on your desktop local environment.
Some ideas to try, anyways.

How to change credentials for Hg repository in Eclipse?

This is exactly the same case as this one, but with Hg instead of SVN. I have MercurialEclipse installed, and I have changed the password of my remote repo. Now when I synch it fails.
I have not found any conf file in "C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data..." about Hg.
I have deleted the .keyring eclipse file and restarted but still fails.
Eclipse 3.6.1 with MercurialEclipse1.6, on windows Vista
In reply to pyfunc (thanks):
I found an entry like this in .hg\hgrc:
[paths]
default = https://user:oldpassword#bitbucket.org/myprojectpath
so I changed to the new password and restarted eclipse, but still I get 'authorization failed'...
I finally found out a way to achieve this. If I select "Synchronize With" I get a dialog and I am able to insert the good values, so now I could synch!
This does not explain why changing values in .hgrc didn't work, but at least is solved now, although it would be nice to find out about the details...
Typically that is stored in .hgrc file. That is the user configuration file stores in the HOME directory. You should be able to change the password there.
As per the man page of Mercurial, there are some suggestions about the location of config file on windows.
1. <install-dir>\Mercurial.ini
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial
3. C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini
4. %HOME%\Mercurial.ini or
5. %HOME%\.hgrc or
6. %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini or
7. %USERPROFILE%\.hgrc
it could also lie in /.hg/hgrc
Finally found the config file after some digging... it's in ${workspace_location}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/com.vectrace.MercurialEclipse
If you close Eclipse, open this file, and delete just the lines at the bottom starting with repo_, the settings you have saved for that repository (including credentials) should be cleared the next time you open Eclipse. You'll probably want to make a backup of the file just in case.
Since these credentials override whatever you have in your hgrc, deleting these should allow the repositories to authenticate with your global settings. You won't necessarily see the credentials in the username/password fields in Eclipse, but if you click Next/Finish anyway, it should work fine.