Importing address book and mail in Thunderbird

[Jim]

Jim wrote:
> Mauriat M wrote:
>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>  
>>> I did a clean install of FC8 on PC which had FC6 before, I saved the 
>>> old
>>> .thunderbird folder from FC6.
>>>  How do I use the "Import" tool in thunderbird, FC8 to import the 
>>> old  FC6
>>> thunderbird  mail ,  address book ?
>>>  I physically moved the old address book into the FC8 thunderbird 
>>> and it
>>> wouldn't accept that.
>>>     
>>
>> What I would recommend is to first quit TB, remove the new F8-TB
>> profile you have created and copy the F6-TB profile into your home
>> directory.
>> Once TB starts up it should automatically convert/update the necessary
>> data from the old profile and use that information.
>>
>> I've been using the same TB profile since RH9 (Thunderbird 0.1a). Each
>> time I upgraded I left the old profile and it got update with each new
>> version of Thunderbird. Of course I backed up with every new Fedora
>> release but I've never had a major problem. On occasion I had to tweak
>> some settings.
>>
>> -Mauriat
>>
>>   
> I agree with you on that, if I do it that way I get a ERROR message in 
> FC8 about "Security" issues, in Firefox and Thunderbird.
>
Why, when you Copy/Burn ~/user to a DVD it changes the "Permissions" on the
Files ?
I had to go into .thunderbird and change permissions to read/write on 
all the files for "owner" , they where changed to read only for owner.
This was the FC6 .thunderbird I burnt to a DVD.