On 02/05/2013 02:58 AM, Claude Jones wrote:
On 2/4/2013 1:53 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
I've not tried that.... But I too would find it odd that it would work.
If I go to/home/egreshko/.thunderbird/p7atwh0r.default and do a
grep greshko * | grep home
I find plenty of references to my home directory under linux which
would seem to be at odds with what would be on a Windows machine.
I have 'tried' what I described, and have done so many times; I did a
fresh install of F18 on my home pc less than three weeks ago, and
migrated my Thunderbird profile folder from my Windows 7 box. I just
tried your command and it just found a bunch of emails with the word
'home' in them so I'm not sure what you're seeing. I have over 40
folders in my config, and hundreds of message filters; all those plus
my accounts came up after I copied the folder from Windows to Fedora.
There is an additional step involved after copying; when TBird is
installed, it creates a profile folder, perhaps on first run, or
directly during the installation, I don't remember at the moment. When
you copy your folder over from another machine, you have to rename
that installation profile, and then rename the one you copied over to
the name of the installation profile - or, there's a way to activate a
feature that is hidden, that allows you to select which profile to use
from the menu - you can google that one if interested... Once you open
TBird using the copied over profile, it will look just like your TBird
on the machine you copied from... Try it.
Copying over profiles and mail folders etc from windows to linux won't
work as is. When folders are created in Tbird it records them in the
case specified at creation time, and looks for them accordingly, but
behind the scenes windows creates them in a completely different case.
Hence if you copy everything over from windows to linux and then run
Tbird, it won't be able to find any folders created because of case
mismatches. I had exactly this problem when I was sharing mail folders
between Tbird under windows and Tbird under linux.
regards,
Steve
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