Conclusion: starting the profile manager from the command line worked. All emails that I was trying to access are now available.
Thanks On Jul 26, 10:30 am, spokeman <[email protected]> wrote: > That works to get the profile manager started! I'll be trying that to > get my old stuff imported later. > > Thank you. > > On Jul 25, 10:15 am, John Ohm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mark, > > You can run the profile manager by starting Thunderbird from the command > > line with the "-profilemanager" (without quotes) switch. > > > ./thunderbird -profilemanager > > > -John > > > spokeman wrote: > > > I'm migrating some work computers from Win to Lin. I've got Ubuntu 9 > > > installed on a working box, and I need to migrate Outlook mail and > > > addresses to the Linux machine. Evolution recommends using > > > Thunderbird, and I've migrated between Windows machines Outlook to > > > Thunderbird in the past. So that is what I did. Installed Tbird on the > > > Win box, imported all the mail and addys. Nice and neat and tidy. > > > > However, the Thunderbird site says to simply copy the old profile > > > files into the new profile you've created on the new machine. I've > > > done exactly as they recommended, and it does not work. I have the > > > mail files, I have the addy files, but I can't get them somewhere to > > > read them. I tried overwriting the existing profile. I tried copying > > > only the mail files over. I tried copying the profile in separately. > > > Mozilla suggests trying their profile manager - I can't find that. > > > > Suggestions, please! > > > > Thanks; > > > Mark > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
