Importing Mail folder from one Thunderbird to another Thunderbird.
g
geleem at bellsouth.net
Tue Jun 30 18:29:41 UTC 2009
Jim wrote:
> My problem was , when I upgraded from FC8 > FC11 , I burnt the old
> .thunderbird to dvd and it change the permissions to 'read' only .
> So what I did I took the old profile folder (8 digit Profile) and copied
> it into the FC11 .thunderbird
> and changed all the 'read' files to 'read/write and i'm back in operation.
>
> I learn a lesson there, Tar the old install before you burn it to cd/dvd .
oops.
that will cause your problems.
due to 'tar' quiting if there is a bad record, i use 'cpio' because it
will skip bad files.
anyway, glad to see you are back reading your email.
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peace out.
tc,hago.
g
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