Hi,
i made a brand new ubuntu system where i have now thunderbird and i want to work with thunderbird on ubuntu.
So know i want to migrate my thunderbirdportable Data into the ubuntu thunderbid.
Can someone help me how i can do this.
Till now i have copy the MAIL folder drom my stick in ubuntu thunderbird, but my profiles dont show in thunderbird.
What have have to change or copy so it work fine?
Thanks
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I dont have Thunderbird portable, I only have Ubutnu with Thunderbird but I think I know the procedure.
I'd run Thunderbird on Ubuntu once so It creates the profile folder in your home directory. Mine is called "/home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird/u3c42ur0.default".
Yours will be similar. Then delete everything in "/.mozilla-thunderbird/u3c42ur0.default/" and copy your USB Profile folder (/PortableApps/ThunderbirdPortable/Data/profile) into the local Profile folder (/.mozilla-thunderbird/u3c42ur0.default/) and start Ubuntu's Thunderbird.
Hope it works.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
the Problem is that Portable thunderbird have no profiles.ini !!!!
A normal thunderbird have it, so i think theres the Problem :/
wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh it worked omg ^^
i had to play a little bit but it work at the time
it works.
Thunderbird Portable doesnt need a portable.ini and after you run it once the Ubuntu one will have one.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
You may want to check out:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird
It has some good info about the various files, what they do, and how to transfer the important stuff.
I have moved my Thunderbird (local) to Thunderbird Portable (on a USB drive) and I basically took the address book and mail (without the indexes) and copied them to the new directory. The indexes are re-created on first run. The KB article tells you the filename for passwords, but I didn't bother. It also tells you how to copy over your message filters.
Of course you can bring over the userChrome.css and userContent.css easily. I only had one extension installed (Mark all read button), so it was just as easy to reinstall it.
Edit: I just found this KB article:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_from_Windows_to_Linux
Jim
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