Hopefully the unsupported and old hand-held might prove to be one hook for this person. The clincher should (hopefully) be that their most recent emails are now on Thunderbird in Ubuntu and no longer on Thunderbird in Windows.
I had to abandon the idea of sharing unless i create a special ntfs specifically for sharing stuff between Windows and Ubuntu which would probably have been a good idea from the start of the whole 'migration'. Automounting the main Windows partition through fstab looks toooo dangerous. Of course i have installed grsync (very nice gui btw) and the last command-line action was to rsync the Ubuntu files to the Windows folder in Docs&Settings/user/ApplicationData/Thunderbird/Profiles to complete the job i think i should have also rsync'd it to Docs&Settings/user/LocalData/ApplicationData/Thunderbird/Profiles as well. <sarcastic>Obviously a much easier </sarcastic> pathname to reach than Ubuntu's /home/user/thunderbird (which is safely on a separate partition from the / Something else Windows is unlikely to ever manage) So all the person needs to do is press up arrow 1 time and then enter to back-up and get Windows up-to-date. I guess that next time i pop round i could set that up as a script but i haven't done any scripting before (not counting html, css & wiki's). It will be easier for me to do the shared partition route i would guess, at least for me. When i first started posting in this thread, even a few months ago i would have looked at this post in horror but learning is so easy with Ubuntu it is almost impossible to notice one's own rapid growth. Regards from Tom :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: New Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
