The account information, mail store locations etc is found in prefs.js. This can be handy to know where someone is setting up a dual boot and already has Thunderbird set up in windows. Simply copy the prefs.js file from the windows profile to the linux thunderbird profile (/home/user/.thunderbird/ProfileFolder), and edit all references containing a windows path to the stores, to reflect the linux path to the windows stores. Finally delete any lines that contain [PrefsD] - these will be automatically re-created when starting thunderbird.
A simple "mv abook.mab abook.old" followed by "ln -s /path/to/windows/profile/abook.mab" (you need to be in ~/.thunderbird/ProfileFolder) gives you a shared address book too. Cheers, Roger Rik Tindall wrote: > Rik Tindall wrote: >> > Has anybody tried importing a .mab from Mozilla into Thunderbird, >> and got it to work? >> > An unavoidable switch. >> >> Copying the abook.mab directly into the new mail directory works ok. >> [but the rest is dir structure problematic] >> >> I'll add to this if there are any other "Import" connundrums usefully >> documented. > > Hi from my first post off Thunderbird on an upgrade to Ubuntu6.06, for > my main desktop / archival machine. > > As stated above, 'the trick to this (migration from Mozilla on a now > redundant partition)': > > a) have your ~/.mozilla folder completely copied into place first, > before running Thunderbird for the first time. Contents & settings get > picked up automagically that way when you first start Thunderbird. > > b) if that step has gone wrong, you can redo it only by running > /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird -P [--profilemanager] and deleting any > profiles listed in that GUI (usually just 'default'). Next run of > Thunderbird is then as a). > > hth someone, > > Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz> on virus-free > Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.06 freeOS, 2.6.15-26-k7 kernel, GNOME 2.14.2 desktop > OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 suite, Mozilla - Firefox 1.5.0.4 web browser and > Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 email, gEdit 2.14.3 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 fileXfer > >
