Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:56:21 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... Message-ID: <20140812185621.GA7166@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:56:14AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > .... Well, I am down to the snorting post, the last task I need to > complete before putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 box into service, replacing > this one (AMD64X2 3800+, FC14 64-bit, terminally patched up several > years ago). Unfortunately, it looks like a bit of a doozy. I need to get > the Mail directory from the old machine to the new one. To start with, I > just copied the whole thing. 35 min. later when it was done, I invoked > T-bird on the FreeBSD box & none of the Mail-directory was visible :-/. > That method worked AOK the last time I used it, 10+ years ago when I put > the old box into service :-). That was also the last time I tried, last > time I needed to do that. Is what I am doing supposed to work ? If not, > how am I supposed to do this ? Mind you, there are yearly archives going > back into the '90's, which I want preserved. The whole Mail directory is > ~20 GiB :-/ .... thunderbird.x86_64 17.0.7-1.fc14.remi on the Fedora > box, thunderbird 31 on the FreeBSD (box std,) .... TIA for any pointers .... Check the permissions and ownership on the folders and files. Even if your username and group name are the same, the *numerical* UID and GID might be different. Is thunderbird configured the same on both machines. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT6mNVAAoJEED21dyjijPgOFQQAKumEp7tCwNDw6tIA75FWuEr TkUtTYBo+EP+FPASTG99zt+p+H7jF+uyEwKkbhX4pLboP68mHXw9PLA8C492IkXI 4JBMXSL2lBPOvhV8zbheV6QpBRg8+kj4qnD+DAzGDykiFw1w/28dpn6Y11ZqyOT4 TJugW7e1Cw03VvkZm1m4ZtwB/3sCKCChNKkKqfn+W5yrZWE1/s6iDmU+mZrxs93p HPfjwU/YT1va8N6bJ/mseX+XN7+KopdbsxeCkGN1W8YNZGbxC1dknsLOMD4TvSXk NFb48wvu1MpeSkEGB8sCpoA4v9804XsrMpHcNmty4LIo01jL5iHScn1H3Yery4BR GzMOfH1w7fqEVPcebMyKxp2jc1x89vAUGD0n0AGDEfvRctO2aKkVuSXV87RxYTGF 6dxy49ZvHk2R2DHLD+Y4XlIQbiy+med5XHiPi767Rqg/X49EVJlPg6rPGcq8QXv4 ZL3zhsZinmQvCLScZFxRZDYGIrIIuD8BACYUckl6U0Sj3x8U7bQlodDrcteb++UM sJuY+RZvksJ5j6hk4xWTN5RdfHwr3EbGw7dc9WjGqd6ghCBIvQfnhr99UKv/6los i2r8QwUtpU/4f6A7aBc9WiZdPwPzfhDhtwy7rjapWhdNJ8+WBWheo2ifqENEmAcd sw2yrFDK1odb7L33iZfZ =BVm+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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