On 10-05-2024 04:03AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2024-10-05 01:09, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
On 10-04-2024 01:47AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 04/10/2024 à 01:35, -pj via openSUSE Users a écrit :
Hi, machine here openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241002. I would like to migrate Thunderbirds personalized/settings and mail accounts to another machine. Instead of going through and manually setting things up from default on the other machine. Is this a fairly common and straightforward procedure? Can you tell me how preferred to do this? The other machine is same TW snapshot also.
-Best Regards
I would simply copy the .thunderbird folder.
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Beginning I attempted copying the .thunderbird folder to a USB flash drive with fat16 filesystem. There was a failure message due to fat16 not supporting symlinks. I used a USB HDD with ntfs filesystem next and there were no problems copying then.
You should have used a stick with a Linux filesystem. Failing that, create in Linux first a tar.gz archive of .thunderbird, and copy that one to the stick. Then expand the artchive at destination.
That's a good suggestion. I should repeat the exercise doing so. I use a stick with luks encryption. If I desire a stick with encryption which linux filesystem can you recommend I use? In my limited gzip notes I believe simply passing gzip .thunderbird would have been sufficient and given me .thunderbird.tar.gz ? To unzip tar -xzvf .thunderbird.tar.gz can you add any more important details that are missed to this?
Then, after copying .thunderbird folder over and attempting to open Thunderbird it would fail with message > Another Thunderbird instance is already opened, please close.
Thunderbird at origin was running when you made the copy.
For me to understand the above sentence more clearly. You say, when the .thunderbird folder was copied, Thunderbird itself was started? -Best Regards