Ralph Seberry wrote: > On Tuesday, 02 Jul 2002 at 14:53, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I want to move all my mozilla stuff from WinXP(*) >>to linux. I looked around on the net and couldn't >>find any mention of doing such a thing. >> >>I think the mail data is easy, but what about the mail >>filters and bookmarks? > > > I've done this, and it's pretty straightforward. > > mail files are compatible with Unix mailbox, except > they have a data file that gives message lengths etc. > So, if you have lines starting with 'From', it > will be confused when rebuilding indexes. (I can't > remember if I had to rebuild the index files.) > > bookmarks are a HTML file (bookmarks.html on linux) > preferences are a javascript file (liprefs.js and preferences.js) > Both can be copied across/manually patched. > > They are under \program files\netscape\navigator\username > on WinXP and ~username/.netscape on linux. > > I don't know where the filters are, but they are > probably flat files too.
Thanks Ralph, I dived in and just did it and you might notice that this is being sent from mozilla under Linux. I had a few little wrinkles, but the mail format seems to be exactly the same, and it has kept my mail filters, bookmarks and everything. Mozilla has a intermediate directory with a random name between the top level and your actual profiles. I had partly create an account under Unix and then copy the files from XP over the top. Then I had to go into each mail and news account and change a few filename settings from c:\documents blah blah\ Mozilla.. to /home/matt/.mozilla/blah.blahblah.. This information seems to be kept in ~/.mozilla/appreg, but it's a binary file :-(. Forgot to change the cache name too, so now I have a file in my home dir called "c:\doc and setting\matt\app ... blahblah\cache" which I need to change, and few strange files related to an old news account I had. Anyway, it seems succesful. Will keep the old XP info around for a little while though. -Matt PS. mischief eh? I've heard that; your reputation goes way back! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
