Hi Carl, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 18 May 2006 09:41, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: <snip>
Hi Hylton,
I don't have a hardware recommendation for you.... What good are you ;)
..... but I do think it'd be a lot easier to make a 'mirror' copy of the directory /home/.mozilla (or whatever the current directory is that contains all your mail) and 'restoring' it to the same location after the new version is installed. Making a miror is what I had in mind and onto a secondary drive I have in the machine however I am sceptical about the reliability of the secondary drive, and I will initially be installing 10.1 on another test system. It is on there that I would like to replace the /home/.mozilla file with the one from my production box before opening seamonkey/t-bird/mozilla for the first time.
Asides from being a handy 'MTA' it also serves as a portable store/backup location. :)
If you do that before opening up seamonkey/t-bird/mozilla the first time, it should automatically recognize and incorporate the existing profile, including the mail. That is what I was hoping.