Importing address book and mail in Thunderbird

[Jim]

max bianco wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> 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.
>>
>>     
> What does the error message say exactly? Look thru your logs and see
> if anything about thunderbird or firefox is mentioned. Don't forget to
> check SELinux logs too.
>
> Max
>
>   
It was talking about Security and I didn't have write privileges .
I had to go into .thunderbird and change to write privileges for the owner.
What I don't understand is when I burnt the ~/user directory in FC6  as 
user to a DVD why did it change the privileges  to read only in the files ?