User profiles

[Art Alexion]

Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:

>  I use Firefox and Thunderbird under EXP and plan to use them under
>  Kubuntu.
>
>  I would like to use the same profile directories under both OS's
>
>  Under Kubuntu is it possible to direct these programs to the
>  profiles I use under EXP (Kubuntu can already read and write to the
>  FAT32 partitions). I tried to change the default directory locations
>  under XP with no success.


I can think of two (alternative) things to try.

   1. At the file system level on the Linux system, create a symbolic
      link to the current profile directory on the fat32 partition. 
      Note the name of the default profile directory on the Linux
      installation.  Delete (or for safety as this is an experiment,
      rename) the default profile directory on the Linux system.  Rename
      the symbolic link as the original name of the default profile
      directory.  Never tried this, but it should redirect the calls to
      the default Linux profiles to the default win32 profiles.
   2. At the configuration level.  Install the about:config extensions
      as needed to Firefox and Thunderbird.  Change the profile
      directories as needed.


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