Re: upgrade to f30: how to recover lost Thunderbird data?

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> 
> Calendar data exported.
> Paths to filters recorded.
> Address book saved.
> 
> * 6 of my e-mail accounts are free yahoo
> accounts; in Thunderbird they 
> are imap.
> * 1 of my accounts is a comcast account; in Thunderbird it's imap.
> That's all: 7 altogether.
> All are set up to *not* save messages locally, so I think there's no 
> migration to be done.  (Am I correct?)
> 

I'm somewhat confused !
Up to now I thought you were unable to run Thunderbird, so exporting was unable too.

Now, since you successful exported your data and your email accounts are all imap I would only do the following:
- forget all I wrote up so far -

1.
save your passwords of your email accounts: 
- if you don't know them out of your head -
in TB: Menue "Edit" => "Preferences" => "Security" => Tab "Passwords" => "Saved Passwords" => "Show Passwords"

right click on the entries => copy Username 
AND 
right click on the entries again => copy Password  

save them in a text file.

1b.
take a screenshot of your TB AddOn's, if you got one

2.
remove all under ~/.thunderbird

3. 
start thunderbird => a new profile is created
TB should be the lastest you can get via dnf upgrade

4.
setup all your email accounts with the user name and user password from step 1.
you need to know the IMAP server adresses, too !

5.
import all your calendars, adressbooks, etc.
mail filter should go, too via: Menue "Tools" => import => Filter => point to your old TB profile ? 
- never done, so I done know -

6. 
reinstall your TB AddOn's

7.
configure your printer under TB

8.
adjust all your TB-Preferences to your need 

advantage: 
all old gruft collected over years under the TB profile, which could cause trouble, is removed too. 
Your are up with a shiny new TB and a shiny new AND clean profile and hopefully there is any trouble left.

9. 
at last: a backup of the shiny new configured state !

10.
be prepared for F31 in two weeks or so !!!
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