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    Problems moving Thunderbird profile from one Ubuntu pc to another

    Hi,

    I've recently re-installed Ubuntu 10.10 since I had some problems upgrading from 10.04. The pc is only used to read e-mail och browse the web, so I saved the profile folder from the old installation and put it in the .thunderbird folder in the new one. I also replaced the automatically generated profile name in the profiles.ini file, with the profile name from the old installation. I used this method once before, and back then I just started Thunderbird and it found all mails and contacts and so on. This time, it only shows the "Mail Account Setup" dialog box, in which you're supposed to fill in your accout information.

    There must be a way to make Thunderbird find all my profile informaton, but how?

    Thanks in advance!

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    Re: Problems moving Thunderbird profile from one Ubuntu pc to another

    Just solved it. During the re-installation of Ubuntu, I stored all personal data on a DVD. Fortunately I saved the e-mail stuff on a USB-stick also. When I had replaced the Thunderbird profile folder with the one from the USB stick, it worked! It was probably some problem with my DVD burner (it's very old).

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    Re: Problems moving Thunderbird profile from one Ubuntu pc to another

    Just solved it. During the re-installation of Ubuntu, I stored all personal data on a DVD. Fortunately I saved the e-mail stuff on a USB-stick also. When I had replaced the Thunderbird profile folder with the one from the USB stick, it worked! It was probably some problem with my DVD burner (it's very old).

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    Re: Problems moving Thunderbird profile from one Ubuntu pc to another

    Just solved it. During the re-installation of Ubuntu, I stored all personal data on a DVD. Fortunately I saved the e-mail stuff on a USB-stick also. When I had replaced the Thunderbird profile folder with the one from the USB stick, it worked! It was probably some problem with my DVD burner (it's very old).

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    Re: Problems moving Thunderbird profile from one Ubuntu pc to another

    So I have looked but I can not find the profile folder....where is it located?

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    Re: Problems moving Thunderbird profile from one Ubuntu pc to another

    More info:
    Update to tb3
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349889
    new
    http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Profiles
    http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile

    It is in a hidden folder so you have to turn on see hidden files & folders.

    My default one, but I edit my profile.ini and use one mounted elsewhere:
    /home/fred/.thunderbird/4xwe1fuk.default

    When from a different mount in fstab.
    Profile.ini
    [General]
    StartWithLastProfile=1

    [Profile0]
    Name=default
    IsRelative=0
    Path=/mnt/shared/mozilla/thunderbird/profiles/lyu25irb.default
    UEFI boot install & repair info - Regularly Updated :
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147295
    Please use Thread Tools above first post to change to [Solved] when/if answered completely.

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    Re: Problems moving Thunderbird profile from one Ubuntu pc to another

    I went and searched under dolphin for the jref file and then went to folder and found it that way. it took a little work but I got everything from the windows profile to my kubuntu profile.

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