On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 09:24 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote: > > > > My rather ancient desktop PC has stopped working due, I think, to a > > > > faulty MBoard and I am now using a laptop running 10.04. I would like to > > > > be able to transfer a variety of files such as Firefox Bookmarks and > > > > email addresses in Evolution from the old HDD to the new computer. The > > > > HDD has been removed from the PC and I have an attachment which connects > > > > the old HDD via a USB cable to the laptop and I would welcome advice on > > > > the best way to proceed. Thanks in advance, > > > > > < snip > > > > If you connect it through a USB cable, Ubuntu should even mount it > > automatically for you as an external disk and you should be able to just > > copy the content from the old drive to the laptop with Nautilus. I just > > did that with the old drive from a defunct laptop. > > > Perhaps I did not put my question very well. I can copy files from the > external drive when I know where to find them. Quite a lot are obvious > but I am not sure how to find and then transfer bookmarks from old > Firefox to new Firefox and old email addresses to new email addresses in > Evolution. It is for this sort of thing that I need help, please.
Firefox bookmarks are a simple HTML file located in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/bookmarks.html I'm not sure if you can import it but at worst, you can always open it in Firefox as a normal HTML file and add all entries to your bookmarks. The evolution address book is in ~/.evolution/addressbook/local/<some weird string>/addressbook.db You should be able to do File -> Import in Evolution and import the old database. Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
