Back to Windows...
Hervé Fache
Herve at lucidia.net
Thu Dec 7 23:54:56 UTC 2006
On 10/23/06, K S Balaji <balajiks2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was good to be using Ubuntu for about a month. I lost my Thunderbird
> mails as I had to reinstall Ubuntu. Even though I had a copy of the mails
> on CD, I could not restore them in the new installation even after going
> through various How Tos.
Why did you re-install Ubuntu?
Why do you say you lost your e-mails if they're on a backup CD?
> I had to remove Ubuntu and reinstall XP, buy a licensed software to convert
> my thunderbird mails to .eml format and print them. Even though Ubuntu was
> free, I still had to pay heavily for it.
Did you try wine? A lot of win32 applications run quite well under it!
You could also have installed Windows in a VMware session... And why
that strange format? AFAIK, Thunderbird uses the (very common) mailbox
format.
> Ubuntu as well as Linux distros have a long journey to make before they can
> compete with Windows which I had to learn the hard way. Now I have to get
> my XP activated again...:-(
Well, I happen to disagree, having to switch from Kubuntu back to
Windows XP at work. I would be more than happy that you actually
justify that sentence, just to see what you think Ubuntu lacks,
because I for sure can see what Windows lacks compared to Ubuntu!
Hervé.
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