User profiles

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> Betti Ann & Preston Smith wrote:
> 
>>  I use Firefox and Thunderbird under EXP and plan to use them under
>>  Kubuntu.
>>
>>  I would like to use the same profile directories under both OS's
>>
>>  Under Kubuntu is it possible to direct these programs to the
>>  profiles I use under EXP (Kubuntu can already read and write to the
>>  FAT32 partitions). I tried to change the default directory locations
>>  under XP with no success.
> 
> 
> I can think of two (alternative) things to try.
> 
>    1. At the file system level on the Linux system, create a symbolic
>       link to the current profile directory on the fat32 partition.
>       Note the name of the default profile directory on the Linux
>       installation.  Delete (or for safety as this is an experiment,
>       rename) the default profile directory on the Linux system.  Rename
>       the symbolic link as the original name of the default profile
>       directory.  Never tried this, but it should redirect the calls to
>       the default Linux profiles to the default win32 profiles.

I've done it, and it worked fine.
-- 
derek