transfer Thunderbird (17) Profile on Win7 to Ubuntu 12.04
- by William Curran
I want to transfer Thunderbird Profile on Win7 to thunderbird (17) Ubuntu 12.04. I already copied the profile folder from Windows to Ubuntu and modified progile.ini on the ubuntu machine to include
[Profile]
Name=Bill
IsRelative=1
Path=(the name of the transfered profile folder)
I think the problem is that the Win. TB profile content (files and folder structure) look VERY different that the that of the unbuntu TB profile's that was created on installation. The Ubuntu install is new where as the Win TB has undergone many updates. Seems the system for profile storage has changed drastically.
I tried to start TB in safe mode but could't get the path correct to start TB in the terminal with the -safe-mode switch.
What can I do?
Bill