tl;dr

[Eugene Cormier]

On 10-06-14 11:33 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> Is anyone else having issues with Thunderbird upgrading to 3x series ? 
> I had set up Ubuntu 9.10 for a family member and Thunderbird was going 
> great, then an upgrade messed it all up. I tried to transfer over the 
> email directory over to a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 Thunderbird setup (after 
> backing up the original fresh install files), and no go. This type of 
> restore works when using the same version, at least in the Thunderbird 
> 2x series.
Hi Daniel, I had no problems whatsoever when I upgraded (I think I 
recall a message from thunderbird the first time I ran it saying that it 
was going to "update" the mailbox format or something along those lines.

anyways I would say that it sounds like you're not putting the folder in 
the right place....here's what I would do.

1) backup all mozilla folders, and then remove them from your home folder
2) run thunderbird and see where it creates a folder (it is .thunderbird 
on my system)
3) close thunderbird and delete the .thunderbird folder it created and 
replace with your backed up thunderbird folder
4) run thunderbird again and it should work ..... the warning is to not 
merge the folders, you need to delete first and then copy your backup

hope this helps

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