Steps for Thunderbird migration from Windows Vista to Fedora

[Sibir Chakraborty]

Hi all,

Ragarding access to Thunderbird profile, kindly note that: On Windows
Vista/XP/2000, the path is usually
%AppData%\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random
string of 8 characters.

Also, C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\ is the
access path that I found in Vista. This is required to be updated in the
docs mentioned below.

In am a newbie to the forum...and you request and appreciate if someone
guides me through.

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Secondly I would also like to add one more guidance tip on the section at :
*Application Data Folder*
If you are unable to fing AppData, please do the following:

Start > Run > enter %AppData% and press Enter. You will be taken to the
"real" folder, which is C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming on Windows
Vista.

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Also, it would be nice to know that, users can move around the Profile to
some location or sda where the sda is not full(enough HD space). It is also
possible to backup on a Remote Mounted location.

To do this:

 Shut down Thunderbird completely

 1. Go to: the path is ~/.thunderbird/
 2. In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved.
Change the Path= line to the new location
 3. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0 and lastly.
 4. Save profiles.ini and restart Thunderbird.

Thanks,
Sibir

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Kirk <kirk202 at q.com> wrote:

> I've written the steps needed to migrate Thunderbird Profile Data from
> Windows XP. I don't have access to Vista.  Could someone read over this
> section for me that's more familiar with Vista and let me know if
> different steps are required?
>
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Guide_-_Communications#Moving_Your_Thunderbird_Profile_Data_from_Windows_to_Fedora
>
> Thanks,
>
>  -Kirk
>
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