Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>
>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting.
>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing
>> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might
>> help.
>
> The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files
> are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for
> this difference, everything is as the page suggests.
>
The reason for that one difference is that your profile location wasn't
changed when thunderbird's settings changed from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird
to ~/.thunderbird as the default location. Debian maintainers might have
decided let the user use the old location than force them to change to
the new one or create new accounts.
/KS
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