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Megafrog
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Migrating TB portable to Linux desktop

Hi everyone. I've decided I want to take my portable TB and move it to an installed Linux desktop. Both are version 78. I tried the directions at this site but they simply did not work: https://fosswire.com/post/2008/03/migrate-your-thunderbird-emails-from-w... It just asks me to "Set up your existing email address" even though I have something like 10 email addresses and a maze of mail sorting folders already in the old TB setup. If TB portable 78 worked in WIne I would just do that on the hard drive for simplicity but it does not work.

Does anyone have suggestions?

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Copy

Copy over the profile folder? I copied my Wins Seamonkey profile over to my Puppy Linux one and it worked like a charm.

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I tried copying according to

I tried copying according to the directions. Thunderbird gives me the option of "default" or "default release" but then nothing comes up and it acts as if I never moved any of the data. I also tried the directions here with the exact same lack of success: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/moving-thunderbi...

What's going wrong? Or is there anything I can do with Wine just to get the portable email running?

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Fixed it

I was getting stumped because when I loaded Linux TB it was asking whether to use the .default folder or .default-profile folder for mail after I wiped out the original placeholder junk in the directory. When I just ignored that and clicked the "start Thunderbird" button at the lower right of the screen that asked about .default, it ignored both of those self-created directories and went directly to my data as I had hoped.

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