A couple of small problems

[Maurice Murphy]

R. Wood wrote:
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> Allegedly, on Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:39:04PM -0500, Maurice Murphy stated:
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>> Anthony Yarusso wrote:
>>     
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm looking for my Thunderbird Mail folder so that I can copy it
>>>>>>> in to my removable USB drive as a backup.  
>>>>>>>               
>>>> Thunderbird mail is stored in
>>>> ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/somethingrandom.default/{Mail,ImapMail}.
>>>>         
>>>>>  But I cannot find
>>>>> somethingrandom.default listed anywhere under Mozilla-Thunderbird.
>>>>> (I realize I'm looking for a number/letter combination.default.
>>>>>      
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>      
>>>>> Maurice
>>>>>           
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Try just doing ls ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/ and tell us what folders
>>> there are.  It could be named differently?  Maybe not .default,
>>> depending.
>>>  
>>>       
>> Anthony,
>>
>> I get four folders each named Mozilla-Thunderbird.  One has 39 items,
>> the others 3,2, and 31 items respectively.  I've been through all of
>> these and their sub-folders and can find nothing that resembles
>> somethingrandom.default.
>>
>> The prime suspect was the profile folder, but alas nothing familiar
>> there.
>>
>> Do you have any other thoughts on this?
>>
>> Thanks again for all your help.
>> Maurice
>>     
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> Perhaps it is time for a brute-force search.  Open a terminal and try
> this at the command-line:
>   cd ; find . -iname "*default*" |grep -i thunderbird |less
>
> If that produces no results then try a broader search:
>   cd ; find . -iname "*default*" |less
>
> Does this output contain any relevant search results?
>
> Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
> Raymond
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Raymond,

Thanks. I found ./.mozilla-thunderbird/pamywnwm.default

But, so far, I have had no luck opening this rascal!

I'll keep you and Anthony posted.

Maurice
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