Re: Transferring Thunderbird mail accounts: Windows vs. Linux

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On 10/26/2017 12:57 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,

One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it
to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data,
but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.

An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux
system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird
is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and then
restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any
idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to
CentOS?

Cheers,

Niki

Should work just fine.  I was running my computer as a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Linux Mint for a while.  I shared the whole Thunderbird profile directory with both OS's.  As I recall, the only issue was that the Lightning calendar add-on was OS-specific and would only work on one of the two unless I re-installed it for whichever OS I was on at the time.

Give it a shot.  Most likely, you'll only have to re-install an add-on or two for the new OS.

--
Bowie
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