Importing address book and mail in Thunderbird

[Jim]

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.