Jim Wrote:
When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w
priviledges in Mail folders to r only. and you say no way, well i'm
sitting here looking at the mail folders on the dvd and all of them say
'read'
In the past I noticed if I move the .thunderbird folder onto a hard
drive or flash drive I had no problems of putting the .thunderbird
folder onto a new upgrade/install and it would work perfectly.
I don't think I've ever burned a recordable DVD or CD with files that
didn't all become read-only. I believe that's the nature of the beast.
Just change the folder (and enclosed file) permissions to writable after
you copy it from the DVD. I do this all the time.
But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/
*solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will
maintain file permissions and ownership.
For example....
$ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/
Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
See "man tar" for more info.
Scott