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I have installed suse 10.3 on a new hard disk. How can I transfer my thunderbird emails from the old hard disk to a new one? Thanks...
  1. 02-29-2008 #1
    dulen
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    Thunderbird email transfer

    I have installed suse 10.3 on a new hard disk. How can I transfer my thunderbird emails from the old hard disk to a new one?

    Thanks
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    As root copy the hidden folder .thunderbird from your old home directory to your new one. You may need to change the ownership to the new user. This is the same with all personal files. You will find them in the old home directory. Firefox setting and bookmarks will be in .mozilla. I don't think you need to change ownership if the old UID is the same as the new UID. The UID is what is really used to set ownership. The user name is just an association to the UID
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    Ordinary cp -Rfp scrunches some (many) Mail files.
    What seems to work always is sequence:
    1) cp -Rfp --copy-contents .thunderbird to your backup
    2) the same from your backup to your new disk
    3) reboot - that will initiate default correctly

    Isn't Linux marvelous!?
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