How do a static backup thunderbird accounts that I can still access locally only (as another profile) on Linux

I have a couple of IMAP accounts with my ISP. (I don't want to use POP). One of them is running out of space, so I have to clean the old stuff. Thunderbird is set to keep a copy of all emails locally on my laptop.

What I want to do is to copy my existing profile and all accounts and the data to another location on the drive of my laptop, BUT I still want to be able to access offline using Thunderbird, so I can watch old information if necessary.

What I am doing wrong?

Here's what I've tried so far:

I know there is the way to go by using profiles, but I was not able to understand how to get Thunderbird for me to change the name of the account in a profile without modification in the other too - or maybe it's not even access it at all.

I use Kubuntu Linux with KDE 4.14.0 14.04.

I tried to copy my profile and access with

   thunderbird -P $HOME/.thunderbird/backup/profiles.ini

and access to the original with

   thunderbird -P $HOME/.thunderbird/profiles.ini

but it seems that it is only in the search to a single profile because when I try to change the name of the account in the backup (so it cannot access my IMAP account), I see the same changes in the regular.

bigbird@Ramdass:~$ cat $HOME/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile = 1

[Profile0]
Name = default
IsRelative = 1
Path = oll1pj1u.default
Default = 1

bigbird@Ramdass:~$ cat $HOME/.thunderbird/backup/profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile = 1

[Profile0]
Name = local backup
IsRelative = 0
Path = / Home/bigbird /. Thunderbird/Backup/oll1pj1u. Backup

bigbird@Ramdass:~$

I don't think that a new profile will help you at all.

Copy what you want to keep from the server in Thunderbird local folders. That will free up space on the server.

Provided that fix you things there is no huge file (> 4 GB) I do not have all of your old messages in local folders will not cause great distress.

You can use the Thunderbird Profile Manager to switch between profiles, but I suspect that you will find it very annoying, because you have to close and re - open Thunderbird or use an add-on, to switch between profiles. Or you can jump through hoops and run two instances of Thunderbird, each with its own profile.

However a lot of profiles that you have, you must make a difference in local folders to avoid them being stored on the server.

You can export the messages to .eml, .txt or .html files but I suspect locate old messages would be painful, given that the chaining and the thread will be lost.

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