thunderbird migration issues

I am sorry you are having so may problems with this, but I will offer some thoughts. First, if you used Migration Assistant to do your transfer from the old computer to the new one, everything could have been transferred and duplicated in the new computer except for the operating system. I would re-check the instructions and see where you may have deviated and caused everything not to transfer. Second, when using Migration Assistant, only connect the two computers with a USB cable. Wi-Fi typically will fail. If you have already installed Thunderbird in the new computer and are trying to manually transfer your files, then the best thing to do is to go to the Thunderbird help site directly. They have a lot of good information there. The internal workings of Thunderbird are somewhat more complex than other mail apps because it has more features than the others do. Some things must be done in a certain way or they won't work. Their help volunteers there are quite helpful and know their product very well. I have worked with them in the past, so I speak from experience. I am sure that they will be able to direct you what to do in a step-by-step manor.

I figured it out... I just recreated all the files in thunderbird with all the old passwords and everything showed up. Didn't need to do anything with the profiles folders.