Regarding syntax:
chown --help reveals:
Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
Which to me means OWNER comes before GROUP in:
sudo chown -R george.users ~/.icedove/*
Besides ... it worked, and the locked symbols instantly went away on all
the root-owned accounts under
Upon looking at the .icedove folder with File Manager, I discovered that the
account that was working OK was under my ownership, but the others were open
only to root (in Trisquel ?) so I did this:
sudo chown -R george.users ~/.icedove/*
Which gave me the needed ownership ... alas, still
Continuing my saga ... After collecting vast quantities of old email
repositories into one place on my NAS, I chose to start with the easiest
one: The Thunderbird installation on my *indows laptop. I managed to do this
by opening two instances of Terminal (one to help me keep track of the
Did you get the syntax right when you issued the command? See the manual page
for the correct syntax. And should not the group be george instead of
users?
The permissions won't get automatically changed. There's no such logic at
work. I don't think this should (or will) change.
Also, the
I just copied my old .thunderbird folder from my old machine and renamed it
to .icedove on my new machine. That worked perfectly well.
In another thread I asked about bringing mail (stored in Mozilla-style
profiles) into IceDove, and now what seemed like an open-and-shut process has
gotten more complicated.
First, the /home directory on my old debian hard drive has me in it, but
there's no Mail folder there ... but that
