Re: bringing Thunderbird from 'doze to suse?

From: ac (aecnews_at_candt.demon.co.uk)
Date: 04/08/05 

Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:21:43 +0100

Foxy wrote:
> ac wrote:
>
>> I am using thunderbird on 'doze and want to move this activity to suse.
>>
>> I have found advice about sharing between 'doze and linux (using a
>> fat32 partition, I have one available),
>> http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/share_mail.html
>> but I am not looking to -share- stuff.
>>
>> I would prefer to have a more or less standard thunderbird install on
>> suse (I have this, but it is not in regular use yet), and (soon) bring
>> my 'doze Tbird profile etc to suse. Anyone know how this might be done
>> please?
>> --
>> AlanC
>
> I guess you need just to copy the profile dir from windows to your
> /home/username/./thunderbird/... dir and use it.

Thanks - I did a somewhat cautious experiment - it seems with a measure
of success - it seems to work as far as I have investigated:

I have already got an installation of thunderbird on a spare (suse)
linux PC, and I used this as the target system. The windows pc and the
suse linux pc are on a small (windows) network.

I used the samba network facility from the linux PC (in the small lan
with mixed windows and linux pcs) - (I think this gets round a possible
difficulty of writing directly from linux into ntfs in a single dual
boot pc).

Firstly (so that it would be at least possible to get back to the
original native thunderbird configuration in suse) in the target suse
linux PC I renamed the

/home/user/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/prefs.js
to be
/home/user/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/orig-prefs.js

and
/home/user/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/mail
to be
/home/user/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/orig-mail

and
/home/user/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/news
to be
/home/user/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/orig-news

Then using the network (windows network) I copied to a temporary
location in the target linux pc, the following folder and contents from
the windows pc
c:\documents and settings\username\application data\thunderbird

This means I had the set of files to choose from, from the windows PC,
available on the linux pc without any further network factors.

I then copied and pasted the following in the linux pc from their places
in the temporary location to
/home/user/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/

news (folder)
mail (folder)
and prefs.js (file)

After restarting thunderbird - it seems to work.....
:-) :-) :-) :-) 

--
AlanC

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