Charles Marcus put forth on 6/25/2010 7:25 AM: > On 2010-06-25 3:19 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> It's interesting that you weren't able/willing to track down the >> source of the problem. It's also interesting how you mention "single >> drag and drop". In my experience, you can't drag/drop _folders_ in >> Thunderbird at all. All the migrations I've done this way required >> creating new folders on the IMAP server (Dovecot), group selecting >> all of the mail in the respective source folder, and selecting "copy" >> or "move" to the destination folder. I couldn't find a way to >> drag/drop a folder of group of folders. Care to share your secret? > > No secret - TB used to not like dragging entire folders at all, but > slowly got better - and with 3.0, it got much better. > > I just tested some (moving about 4GB Sent folder to a gmail account) > with 3.1rc2, and it moved everything perfectly, although it took a few > hours... > > There were no sub folders though... I'll test that next...
Ahh, ok. I think the last time I did such a migration was in the 2.x days, which actually wasn't all that long ago. Last fall maybe? Oct/Nov 2009? Somewhere around there IIRC. -- Stan
