On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 01:07:29PM -0400, Bart Lidofsky bart@moosewise.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> On 4/2/2015 12:23 AM, ve7tk@yahoo.ca [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> >
> >I am in the process of building up a "new" Linux machine for my
> >wife. I have loaded Linux Mint and updated it. My wife is
> >currently using the same version of Mint on her current machine.
> >I have used the Mint software backup/restore to bring over the
> >downloaded software.
There should be a $HOME/.thunderbird directory. Note the period before the
directory name, it will be hidden.
In there, should be a profile directory--if there's only one profile, it
might be right in the .thunderbird directory, or it may be in a
subdirectory called profiles. It will be a long alphanumeric name and
profile, like abcd1234.profile
In there you will see a bunch of files. Those files are what you want.
>
So as ve7tk wrote,
> OK, for Thunderbird, the best way is to backup the Thunderbird
> directory, move it to the new machine, and create a profile,
> pointing it to the directory.
In other words, open thunderbird once on the new machine. This will create
a new .thunderbird/somelongalphnumericcombo.profile directory.
Copy over the files from the old directory into it.
--
Scott Robbins
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