thunderbird point to saved mail file

[Brandon Sandrowicz]

On Dec 4, 2007 4:29 PM,  <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Tyler Aviss writes:
>
> > Thunderbird and Firefox have some weird formula for the exact location
> > the the profile directory, but you can set your own if you use
> > thunderbird --profilemanager
> > or
> > thunderbird -P
>
> I'm pretty sure it's the mail file I want to specify - not the profile (?)
>
> Chris
>
> >
> >
> > On Dec 4, 2007 11:30 AM,  <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> I had a my main hard drive on my main system go south. I'm going to be
> >> soliciting help with a backup system design. In the meantime I want to use
> >> my saved thunderbird mail file on my wife's machine. I am doing a yum
> >> install thunderbird right now. When thunderbird is installed and I fire it
> >> up, does anyone have any advice so that I can point to my saved mail file
> >> before thunderbird goes ahead and makes its own default one? I don't want
> >> the confusion of unneeded mail files.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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> > Tyler Aviss
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>

In your ~/.thunderbird folder, there should be a 'profiles' directory,
IIRC.  In that profiles directory there is a folder called something
weird like 'itakSGg' or something like that.  That is your 'profile'
it has all of your settings in it.  Using the 'Profile Manager' it's
possible to have multiple profiles, which would allow you to have two
or more completely different setups on the same user account.  Most
people just end up with whatever the default profile that Thunderbird
creates (Firefox does the same thing in the ~/.firefox directory
IIRC).

The thing that I'm not sure about is if you just manually copy the
entire contents of ~/.thunderbird from the old location to the new
location, if Thunderbird will automatically pickup on the profile that
is there (your old one), or try to create a new one... without using
the Profile Manager to manually tell it about the profile.
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