On 02/05/2013 02:58 AM, Claude Jones wrote:
Copying over profiles and mail folders etc from windows to linux won't work as is. When folders are created in Tbird it records them in the case specified at creation time, and looks for them accordingly, but behind the scenes windows creates them in a completely different case. Hence if you copy everything over from windows to linux and then run Tbird, it won't be able to find any folders created because of case mismatches. I had exactly this problem when I was sharing mail folders between Tbird under windows and Tbird under linux.On 2/4/2013 1:53 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:I've not tried that.... But I too would find it odd that it would work.If I go to/home/egreshko/.thunderbird/p7atwh0r.default and do a grep greshko * | grep homeI find plenty of references to my home directory under linux which would seem to be at odds with what would be on a Windows machine.I have 'tried' what I described, and have done so many times; I did a fresh install of F18 on my home pc less than three weeks ago, and migrated my Thunderbird profile folder from my Windows 7 box. I just tried your command and it just found a bunch of emails with the word 'home' in them so I'm not sure what you're seeing. I have over 40 folders in my config, and hundreds of message filters; all those plus my accounts came up after I copied the folder from Windows to Fedora. There is an additional step involved after copying; when TBird is installed, it creates a profile folder, perhaps on first run, or directly during the installation, I don't remember at the moment. When you copy your folder over from another machine, you have to rename that installation profile, and then rename the one you copied over to the name of the installation profile - or, there's a way to activate a feature that is hidden, that allows you to select which profile to use from the menu - you can google that one if interested... Once you open TBird using the copied over profile, it will look just like your TBird on the machine you copied from... Try it.
regards, Steve
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