G T Smith wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Whatever else was in my old profile doesn't matter as I will create a new one ie spam filter. Is there anything else I have not thought of/missed ie I've thought of the Maildir, the address book, the filters as being the main items.
I'd really appreciate some pointers here as I dislike using GMail or webmail.
TIA Hylton Under your home directory, you should have something like this: ~/.mozilla/default/f6rgpr1p.slt. That last directory contains all your settings etc. and you want to copy them to the new drive. It's been a while since I've done this, but IIRC you simply create a new account with the same ID and then copy the files over.
.mozilla is where firefox keeps its settings , thunderbird normally keeps them in .thunderbird. (at least on my machines).
However. this should work with thunderbird profiles if you are certain the rest of the original profile is good and you remember to edit .thunderbird/profiles.ini to point to the copied profile structure. Otherwise thunderbird will just create a new profile structure and ignore the copied one. If the original profile is corrupt (and this has happened to me) this can get messy.
Yes, Just like G.T. (not Grant) said. What you want to do is go ahead and start tbird on a new machine and let it create an empty account. You know what the pouy0786453 directory name from your old tbird install is. After tbird creates the new empty account, just edit ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini and change the new empty gobbly-gook directory name to your old gobbly-gook name and copy your old directory over under the new ~/.thunderbird directory and then thunderbird will use the old information for the new install. Since we are talking in such non-sensical technical terms, perhaps an example will help. I have: 22:16 alchemy~/.thunderbird> l total 20 drwx------ 3 david dcr 4096 2007-10-16 12:05 ./ drwxr-xr-x 82 david users 4096 2008-10-15 21:21 ../ drwx------ 8 david dcr 4096 2008-10-15 21:31 2k12pnl0.default/ -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 335 2007-10-16 12:05 appreg -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 94 2007-10-16 12:05 profiles.ini In my profiles.ini, you can see the path variable controls where thunderbird looks for data. 22:16 alchemy~/.thunderbird> cat profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=2k12pnl0.default When I change machines and want to bring my old stuff with me, I just copy the "2k12pnl0.default" directory and then edit the profiles.ini on the new machine to change the path= line to "2k12pnl0.default" Clear as mud... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org