On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Art Wildman wrote:
Jon Peatfield wrote:
At least on SL308 the thunderbird 1.5.0.12 would offer to convert/import
a mozilla/netscape profile if the user didn't have any profiles when it
was first run.
On SL50 (i386 tested so far), it no longer seems to do that. Instead it
seems to make a default profile and then start the add account wizard.
For people converting from netscape/mozilla/seamonkey mail this is rather
more effort for them so I'm puzzled why this would have changed (especially
when it is the same version of thunderbird).
Of course it may just be that we have managed to break our thunderbird
setup to make this fail (I can't see any reason why it would be disabled
by default).
Does it work for anyone else in SL50?
Transferring data to a new profile - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profile
Checked those options already, and no they don't seem to work for us on
SL50 (I've now checked on both i386 and x86_64 versions).
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrate_from_Mozilla_Suite_or_Netscape_to_Thunderbird
suggests using:
thunderbird -createProfile <Profile Name>
thunderbird -P <Profile Name> -migration
which works fine with thunderbird on SL3x but not on SL50 where I just get
an error for the -migration:
$ thunderbird -createProfile test4
Success: created profile 'test4'
$ thunderbird -P test4 -migration
Warning: unrecognized command line flag -migration
Indeed it appears that (on SL3) just specifying -migration offers to
convert into the default profile, though if I cancel the migration wizard
then I also see the 'Warning: unrecognized command line flag -migration'
error...
There may be some -profilemanager, -profile or other command line
arguments that could help you...
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
On SL50 thunderbird seems to ignore that a user has a mozilla/seamonkey
profile it could transfer and just starts them off with a blank profile
and then runs the 'new account wizard'
I'm wondering if this is just an oddity of our setup here - did we break
thunderbird's migration feature somehow which is why I wondered if it
works for *anyone* out there... Or maybe for this to work thunderbird
uses/needs a piece of the mozilla/seamonkey code.
Of course once all the users have converted from mozilla/seamonkey to
thunderbird it won't really be a bit deal and we can currently advise
people to do the profile-conversion by ssh'ing to an SL3 machine and
running thunderbird -migration there...
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Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/
