[GRLUG] transfer Thunderbird settings from one Linux box to another

[Rick Vargo]

If you have already ran Thunderbird on the machine you want to copy your
profile to, then you are probably not overwriting the TB registry file
which points it to the originally created profile on that machine.  If
you do not need any TB settings you have setup on the machine you are
copying to, delete the .mozilla/thunderbird directory first before
copying over your desired profile.

Rick


john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:37:46PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> On 5/30/07, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> I have googled far and wide - literally around the world :-) - for a
>>> simple means (actually, *any* means) of transferring mail and settings
>>> from Thunderbird on one Linux box to Thunderbird on another Linux box.
>>> Have any of you done this?  If so, how?  I have found numerous howto's
>>> for Windows.  There is even a GUI app for Windows to do this.  I have
>>> found nothing for Linux.  Buehler?
>>>       
>> scp -r ~/.mozilla/thunderbird me at mybox:~/.mozilla/
>>
>> ?
>>     
>
> Erm...yes.  That will copy from one machine to another.  I know how to
> *copy* the data. When I create a Thunderbird account, however,
> Thunderbird creates a "profile".  For example, 9abc5xyz.slt.  This is
> not a user profile name I create.  How do I tell Thunderbird to use the
> existing user profile that I have copied?
>