Easiest Way To Move Thunderbird Mail Folders To Another Computer?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Feb 26 19:17:13 UTC 2009
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>> I have a .thunderbird email client folder on a Fedora 7 x86_64 system
>> that I need to move to a Fedora 10 x86 system. It occurs to me that if I
>> move this, and then start thunderbird on the new system, I might have
>> trouble because of 64-bit code. Also trouble with updating Enigmail. I
>
> There should be noting specific to 32-bit or 64-bit in your .thunderbird
> directory. I know, I upgraded an FC6.i386 system to F9.x86_64 and my
> Thunderbird just plain continued to work.
>
>> want to be sure I can sign and encrypt email messages. Am I better off
>> just moving
>>
>> .thunderbird/[salt].default/Mail/*
>> .thunderbird/[salt].default/abook.mab
>
> You could just move the entire .thunderbird/[salt].default directory
> lock stock and barrel (AFAIK). Make sure you edit the
> .thunderbird/profiles.ini file to properly reflect your default profile.
>
>> What file(s) store the email account information?
>
> They are all buried down in the profile directory structure.
>
>> Or, to make a long story short, can I just tar up all of .thunderbird
>> and not worry about conflicts on the 32-bit system?
>
> That's my thought. Good luck!
>
>> Bob Cochran
>> Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
>
I will second this. And if your .thunderbird directory is in the same
/home/{user}/.thunderbird you will not have to change anything.
I have done two upgrades and all I did was copy the data and open TB.
It isn't that much different than upgrading from one version of TB to a
different one from my experience.
--
Robin Laing
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