Easiest Way To Move Thunderbird Mail Folders To Another Computer?

[Robin Laing]

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