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.

-- 

-John (john at os2.dhs.org)





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