On 2024-10-05 17:42, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
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?
That's not an easy question. Problem is, USB sticks are actually optimized for FAT. Use any filesystem you like. ext4 with journal removed is a good option: mke2fs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal -L pincho /dev/sdXY https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/scrbxm/does_usb_flash_drive... https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/ That said, there was a filesystem designed for usb sticks, I forget its name. It has not gained traction. f2fs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS
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?
tar -czvf thunderbird_copy.tgz ~/.thunderbird/* on destination: tar -xzvf thunderbird_copy.tgz https://www.howtogeek.com/248780/how-to-compress-and-extract-files-using-the...
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?
You failed to exit/stop thunderbird before making the copy of the folder, thus on restore it thinks there is another instance running. Otherwise, there is a lock flag file somewhere. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)