Back to Windows...

[Vincent Arnoux]

On 10/23/06, K S Balaji <balajiks2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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...:-(
>
> Regards
>
> K S Balaji

And how the hell did you happen to need to convert back your e-mails to eml 
format to get them back ???
I usually spend half a day a week doing the opposite to my colleagues' 
computer to recover their mailboxes from Outlook crashes/bugs...

Vincent