Easiest Way To Move Thunderbird Mail Folders To Another Computer?
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Feb 24 00:07:38 UTC 2009
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
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