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

[Jan Greeff]

If it helps any, when I upgraded to 12.04, I made sure that there is no 
.thunderbird folder in the home folder, then pasted my .thunderbird 
profile into the home folder. Worked perfectly.

Jan


On 24/05/2012 19:10, vincent wrote:
> 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
>> IT Manager/
>> 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
>
>