Thunderbird Password file location

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Sep 26 03:53:01 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 08:30 -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> The number was different on my machine, but the .s file was there and
> deleting cleared all my passwords. 

The numbers in the profile directory are pseudo random.  It's a way of
(almost) guarenteeing a unique directory name as well as making it hard
for some outsider to guess the name of the directory where your private
files are located (although this is, pretty much, pointless).

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