Thunderbird problem in Edgy

[Don Dwiggins]

Paul Thompson wrote:
> Thanks Don,
> 
> Got it sorted. I keep my profile in a fat partition which I share with
> winxp which I need sometimes at work. Under Dapper this is
> media/windows...... however under Edgy it is media/hda5....

You're likely to run into problems doing that, due to the pathname 
differences between the two OSs.  Here's a page that is supposed to help 
you do that successfully: thunderbird/share_mail.html (I plan to try it 
myself Real Soon Now).

> The Thunderbird message is totally misleading.

Amen to that; might be worth a bug report asking for better information.
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Don Dwiggins	
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