gogolink
December 23rd, 2010, 04:02 PM
Hi,
I'm running 10.10 on two computers, and I'm using Dropbox to keep Thunderbird synced.
(I created a subfolder "ThunderbirdProfile" in my Dropbox folder, moved the contents of [random-letters-and-numbers].default (in /home/[username]/.thunderbird) there, and modified the file profiles.ini (also in /home/[username]/.thunderbird): I changed the value of "IsRelative" from 1 to 0, and the Path to /home/[username]/Dropbox/ThunderbirdProfile.)
Syncing works basically fine: I have the same Thunderbird address books, calendars (Lightning extension), and folders on both computers.
But there's one problem: Thunderbird keeps creating "conflicted copies" of various files (I guess because I often open Thunderbird before Dropbox is done syncing), and these copies quickly eat up a lot of my valuable space on Dropbox. I do delete these files occasionally, but I wonder whether there's any way to either keep Thunderbird from creating them in the first place, or delete them automatically (a script that runs at startup?).
Or is there a more elegant way to sync Thunderbird across two Ubuntu computers - one that doesn't involve keeping the entire profile folder on Dropbox? (I'd be happy to use Ubuntu One, but I don't know if there's anything different I could do with it, given that I'm not using Evolution.)
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
I'm running 10.10 on two computers, and I'm using Dropbox to keep Thunderbird synced.
(I created a subfolder "ThunderbirdProfile" in my Dropbox folder, moved the contents of [random-letters-and-numbers].default (in /home/[username]/.thunderbird) there, and modified the file profiles.ini (also in /home/[username]/.thunderbird): I changed the value of "IsRelative" from 1 to 0, and the Path to /home/[username]/Dropbox/ThunderbirdProfile.)
Syncing works basically fine: I have the same Thunderbird address books, calendars (Lightning extension), and folders on both computers.
But there's one problem: Thunderbird keeps creating "conflicted copies" of various files (I guess because I often open Thunderbird before Dropbox is done syncing), and these copies quickly eat up a lot of my valuable space on Dropbox. I do delete these files occasionally, but I wonder whether there's any way to either keep Thunderbird from creating them in the first place, or delete them automatically (a script that runs at startup?).
Or is there a more elegant way to sync Thunderbird across two Ubuntu computers - one that doesn't involve keeping the entire profile folder on Dropbox? (I'd be happy to use Ubuntu One, but I don't know if there's anything different I could do with it, given that I'm not using Evolution.)
Any ideas would be much appreciated.