Help with Thunderbird Email and Addresses

[jwf]

Hello folks,
I've need help in recovering my Thunderbird Emails and addresses. I have a system with a hard disk error that prevents me from starting a gui interface (KDE), therefore I cannot start Thunderbird to retreive my files.
I can however get the system up to a command line sign on and copy files. Does anyone know where the Email notes and Addresses are stored? I figure I could offload that data and reload it after I've formatted and reinstalled Linux on the hard drive (or even replace the drive if necessary). The damaged system is Suse 9.1
The partially damaged hard drive shares it's space with a partitioned Windows XP OS (which still works fine), so I have quite a bit of offloading to do before I rebuild the drive.
My thoughts here are that I need to identify the version of Thunderbird that I have loaded, then make sure I install that same version to access the recovered data. Does that sound correct?

Thanks in advance.

[devils casper]

i am using kmail and it stores all addresses and emails in /home/<user_name>/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail.
look in /home/user_name/.gnome2...






Casper

[gogalthorp]

/home/user_name/.thunderbird

version should not matter. You may have to play with permissions if copied to a new system since the user ID number may be different.

[jwf]

Thanks guys,
I think I'll just 'tar' the /home directory. I'm hoping firefox bookmarks will be there too.

Also, I remember someone suggesting when repartitioning ones hard drive to set the /home directory apart from the rest of the file structure. I'll see if I can't find that reference again. I don't know if it was in this forum or another one.

Cheers!

[rong]

Thanks guys,
I think I'll just 'tar' the /home directory. I'm hoping firefox bookmarks will be there too.

Also, I remember someone suggesting when repartitioning ones hard drive to set the /home directory apart from the rest of the file structure. I'll see if I can't find that reference again. I don't know if it was in this forum or another one.

Cheers!

FFox bookmarks, etc are in ~/.mozilla so your archiving of ~/ will do it.

It is good practice to create a seperate /home partition in the event the system files on / get corrupted. That way you can reinstall the OS but not reformat the /home partition. Easy to set up when you do your reinstallation. Just do the manual partitioning and make a seperate Primary (not extended) partition for /home.