Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
KS wrote:
> 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
If I want to follow the current thunderbird style, Is it as simple as moving
~/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~/.thunderbird? Or do we need to do anything
more?
raju
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