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.
In fact, I rarely add or remove mail accounts, so I have an old copy of this folder and use this one. All my accounts are imap, so the sync is done automatically
this can be done in various ways, depending of the size of the folder, but a tar file is a good option
I don't want to sync all the home, because I use my computers with various configurations
jdd
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. Then, after copying .thunderbird folder over and attempting to open Thunderbird it would fail with message > Another Thunderbird instance is already opened, please close. I renamed the .thunderbird folder and reopened Thunderbird. Filled out form by entering username, email account and then password. After doing that I closed Thunderbird and copied .thunderbird to ~/home/username. After doing this things seem to be working well. Now I would like to continue questions about copying entire /home over. I have not used rsync before and Michael's post seems to be a good thing for me to understand more about. I will respond there eventually. Thanks for help with this. 🙂