Thunderbird newbie

[Reindl Harald]

Am 13.02.2013 01:17, schrieb Claude Jones:
> On 02/12/2013 03:33 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>> Perhaps it's a one-way street. I've done this many times. It's
>>> possible that I originally created my first TBird install in Linux,
>>> and copied that profile over to my Windows box, thus preserving the
>>> Linux case usage. That would explain the fact that copying back from
>>> Windows to Linux works for me - it's the only thing that comes to mind
>>> to explain our different experiences - as I've said a couple of times
>>> in this thread, I've done this many times and it has always worked for
>>> me.
>> It is possible things were done differently. My specific situation was
>> that if folders were created in Tbird under linux in the shared mail
>> folder then they were accessible in Tbird under both environments, but
>> if the folders were created in Tbird under windows in the shared mail
>> folder, Tbird under linux listed the folders in its folder list, but
>> when you clicked on them to display the contents Tbird complained it
>> couldn't find them
> 
> Sounds like you've confirmed my theory...Windows doesn't care about case much of the time, but Linux usually does

to make it clear - windows is and was always COMPLETLY case-insensitive
while unix (except MacOSX seen on many setups) was and is not

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