Re: Firefox and Thunderbird not working after home folder imported from xubuntu 13.10
Originally Posted by
gadjet77
They should survive (I did it mant times across the years) but now they don't seem to. If I rename the old thunderbird folder in /.thunderbird.bak and I start the application, a new /.thunderbird folder is created but I'm trying to figure out how to import there all the old profile settings, mails and stuff. Simply pasting the old folder in the new xxxxxxxx.default doesn't seem to work...
Gadjet
OK. I'll attempt this one.
- Close Thunderbird.
- Open your file manager and navigate to your /home/<user> directory.
- Press Ctrl+H to show hidden files.
- Open .thunderbird.bak in your home/<user> in the file manager.
- There should be a something.default directory there.
- open it.
- Press Ctrl+A to select all.
- Navigate with the same file manager window to /.thunderbird
- and find the something.default in the "new" ~/.thunderbird directory and open it
- Press Ctrl+V to paste those contents into the "new" /home/<user>/.thunderbird/something.default directory, overwrite all if|when prompted.
- Open Thunderbird.
IF you have more than 1 email account, then you could or should copy all the contents of .thunderbird.bak/ into the "new" .thunderbird directory, including the profile.ini
and then open Thunderbird.
Are they the same version of Thunderbird at least?
Last edited by Habitual; October 22nd, 2013 at 05:37 PM.
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