Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:42:11 -0600 From: Randy Woy <randy@woy.us> To: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Migrating Thunderbird 3 Email Archives from XP Pro SP3 to FreeBSD 8.0 Message-ID: <4B610793.3060805@woy.us> In-Reply-To: <4B60A0B3.8040505@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> References: <4B60A0B3.8040505@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
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Programmer In Training wrote: > I've done some searching on the Thunderbird (TB) website and have posted > the question at one of their support forums, but I felt I should ask > here, too, just in case someone else has confronted this. > > I only use POP3 to retrieve email (the merits of POP3 vs IMAP not > withstanding) and store locally so I have easy and offline access to it. > For about two years now I've been using XP to retrieve and check my > email, upgrading through various versions of TB without a problem. Now > I'm confronted with an issue I've not faced before (or attempted to > confront). > > Transferring archives from one computer to another. I know where they > are kept on the XP machine, I /think/ I know where they are kept on my > FreeBSD box (nothing a little ls -a won't help me find). My question is > if this even possible since Mozilla Foundation went to using binary > archives for the email. I think it might be, but I'm not really wanting > to waste the time to only be frustrated in the end. > > Has anyone attempted such a migration? Did you need any special tools? > If not, was it as simple as copy/pasting into the appropriate directory > structure? Or do I need to set up the accounts in TB on my FreeBSD box > /first/ then copy/paste? > > TIA for reading and especially for helping (if you can)! (: I made the same migration in the opposite direction. It's a straight copy from one system to the other. I copied my FreeBSD Thunderbird archives to Windows 7 Thunderbird on a dual boot system using a USB memory key. Copy the contents of C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<aaaaaaaa>.default\Mail\Local Folders\ to /usr/home/<username>/.thunderbird/<aaaaaaaa>.default/Mail/Local Folders/ That's it. Randy -- Randy Woy randy@woy.us From Thunderbird on FreeBSD 7.1 "Believe me, they'll find a way. Governments loath people being free." - Bill Nighy as Quentin in Pirate Radio
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