Thunderbird exports and Fedora Upgrading
John Thompson
JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Sat Sep 4 17:45:40 UTC 2004
TroyGeek wrote:
> Usually when a new release of Fedora comes out I like to backup my data,
> format the hard drive, and then then install a fresh release instead of
> 'upgrading' since it seems cleaner.
>
> I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my email. I don't see any export options
> to save my emails. I'm wondering how I can backup/export my email from
> Thunderbird so that I can be prepared for when FC3 comes out and I
> upgrade. I want to be able to keep all my email.
>
> Any ideas? Just copy a directory or something?
If you have /home on a separate filesystem you should be able to upgrade
without affecting anything on /home.
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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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