Re: [PLUG] .thunderbird

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Stewart B. Lone wrote:

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> Art Alexion wrote:
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> > I updated enigmail through the thunderbird extensions manager and it
> > stopped working.  I had been using thunderbird 1.0.2.  I decided to use
> > apt-get to install enigmail, and it wanted to install a new version of
> > thunderbird (1.0.6).  I allowed it, but it is using its own
> > configuration settings (.mozilla-thunderbird), and not those of the
> > previous installation (.thunderbird).  To move mailboxes, I seem to have
> > several options.
> >
> >  1. Move the Mail folder (and subfolders) from
> >     .thunderbird/123xyzdefault/ to
> >     .mozilla-thunderbird/456abcdefault/, then use about:config to make
> >     sure the prefs.js file is pointing to the right mailboxes.
> >  2. rename .mozilla-thunderbird/456abcdefault/ to something else and
> >     rename .thunderbird/123xyzdefault/ to
> >     .mozilla-thunderbird/456abcdefault/
> >  3. use the Account Preferences system to create new accounts pointing
> >     to the old mail folders.
> >  4. just copy the account directories from .thunderbird/123xyzdefault/
> >     to .mozilla-thunderbird/456abcdefault/ and make sure the accounts
> >     point to them, either via about:congfig or the Account Preferences
> >     system.
> >  5. Use a built in import utility (if there is one).
> >
> > What is the preferred method?
> >
> >    
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> I did exactly the same thing, but it emptied all my back emails. All my
> folders are empty. I have searched all over my home directory but the
> content seems to have just evaporated. I have nothing newer than
> 09/15/2005 11:14 AM in any folder. Thank goodness it did`nt touch my
> address book. Nothing I can do about it now, I thought it was perhaps
> just a Suse idiosycracy. I`m baffeled.
>  
No, my old mail (and my old program version) are still there and
functioning (except enigmail doesn't work in the old version).

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