Steps for Thunderbird migration from Windows Vista to Fedora

[Juan M. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Sibir Chakraborty
<jkstriangle at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>
> Hey Sibir,

Thanks for your corrections, as I said, I'm no Vista user so I couldn't
check if anything else had changed.

I'm updating the Wiki page to make up for my mistake.

Thanks!
-Nushio

-- 
Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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