A couple of questions from a new user

[Sean Legassick]

Ian Hogben wrote:
> While this is not an Ubuntu question per se, it relates to my migration
> of data from old system to Ubuntu. I have my .thunderbird directory from
> my old thunderbird install, and I am trying to migrate it to the current
> install. Saved mail is easy to copy over - you just copy over the
> relevant files and it is done. But what about contacts...? Does anyone
> know of an easy way to migrate contacts without having exported them first?

I do this by copying the abook.dat file in your profile directory, works 
fine.

Sean