Thunderbird newbie

[Claude Jones]

On 2/4/2013 1:53 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I've not tried that....  But I too would find it odd that it would work.
>
> If I go to/home/egreshko/.thunderbird/p7atwh0r.default and do a
>
> grep greshko * | grep home
>
> I find plenty of references to my home directory under linux which would seem to be at odds with what would be on a Windows machine.

I have 'tried' what I described, and have done so many times; I did a 
fresh install of F18 on my home pc less than three weeks ago, and 
migrated my Thunderbird profile folder from my Windows 7 box. I just 
tried your command and it just found a bunch of emails with the word 
'home' in them so I'm not sure what you're seeing. I have over 40 
folders in my config, and hundreds of message filters; all those plus my 
accounts came up after I copied the folder from Windows to Fedora. There 
is an additional step involved after copying; when TBird is installed, 
it creates a profile folder, perhaps on first run, or directly during 
the installation, I don't remember at the moment. When you copy your 
folder over from another machine, you have to rename that installation 
profile, and then rename the one you copied over to the name of the 
installation profile - or, there's a way to activate a feature that is 
hidden, that allows you to select which profile to use from the menu - 
you can google that one if interested... Once you open TBird using the 
copied over profile, it will look just like your TBird on the machine 
you copied from... Try it.

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Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA