Thunderbird newbie

[Stephen Morris]

On 02/13/2013 11:19 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 13.02.2013 01:17, schrieb Claude Jones:
>> On 02/12/2013 03:33 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>>> Perhaps it's a one-way street. I've done this many times. It's
>>>> possible that I originally created my first TBird install in Linux,
>>>> and copied that profile over to my Windows box, thus preserving the
>>>> Linux case usage. That would explain the fact that copying back from
>>>> Windows to Linux works for me - it's the only thing that comes to mind
>>>> to explain our different experiences - as I've said a couple of times
>>>> in this thread, I've done this many times and it has always worked for
>>>> me.
>>> It is possible things were done differently. My specific situation was
>>> that if folders were created in Tbird under linux in the shared mail
>>> folder then they were accessible in Tbird under both environments, but
>>> if the folders were created in Tbird under windows in the shared mail
>>> folder, Tbird under linux listed the folders in its folder list, but
>>> when you clicked on them to display the contents Tbird complained it
>>> couldn't find them
>> Sounds like you've confirmed my theory...Windows doesn't care about case much of the time, but Linux usually does
> to make it clear - windows is and was always COMPLETLY case-insensitive
> while unix (except MacOSX seen on many setups) was and is not
Exactly, and this was why I was providing my original warning that 
simply copying Tbird profiles form Windows to Linux was not necessarily 
going to work asis.

regards,
Steve

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