By BRYAN
Transfering Thunderbird profile from Windows to Ubuntu
This is pretty easy, but thought i’d include the directions for this sucker.
Copy your profile folder from Windows:
C:/Documents and Settings/user/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/
Over to (Ctrl+H shows hidden folders):
/home/user/mozilla.thunderbird
After it’s copied over, open up profiles.ini in the mozilla.thunderbird folder. You should see something like this.
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=r7s8s6fu.default
Change “Path=” to whatever the name of your profile folder is.
Now load up Thunderbird and you should have your account and mail all there. If you get an error message like i did on load, it’s because you have Windows only add-ons. Remove them and the errors will go away. Check the thunderbird site for Linux-friendly add-ons.
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There is also a way to share your profile between both (share the same files so it update in both), if you so desire, here’s a tutorial for that.
