[ubuntu-za] Thunderbirdv12.01 Backup and Restore between 10.04 & mint12?

[vincent]

On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 09:08 +0200, FransIT wrote:
> It would seem like the fresh install do not have a profiles folder under 
> which the profiles are saved,
> The profiles.ini file do however stil look and work teh same you should 
> find it under /*~/.thunderbird*/
> Just copying your old email folder to here should work.
> 
> On 12/05/23 18:43, Vincent wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've got 12.04 running on my desktop & mint12(ubuntu 11.10) on my 
> > netbook, both using TB12.01.
> >
> > My problem is that backing up TB and then trying to restore to 10.04 
> > doesn't work. However in the past when running 10.04 on the netbook, 
> > this always worked perfectly.
> >
> > The default mail paths in mint were different to 10.04, so I changed 
> > them to the default in 10.04, still no joy.
> >
> > Does this mean that files in 10.04 and 11.10 are not compatible, or am 
> > I missing a trick here?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Vince
> >
> >
> 
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> Frans de Waal
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> Dormakorp
> 
> 

Hi Frans,

Thanks for your input. Both my netbook & desktop TB's have profile.ini
files and I made sure they are pointed to the same default path, but
still no joy.
I don't have windows to dual boot with, give it up when I upgraded from
7.04 to 8.04.

The only thing I can think of now is checking that my backup & restore
paths are correct.

I'll let you know of any progress.

Cheers

Vincent