Transfer of Firefox and Thunderbird data

[Karl Larsen]

Hi I just got Thunderbird working by giving the new Thunderbird the old 
3v95edv. and profile.ini from the old Fedora version. Now I'm trying to 
get Firefox to use the same thing. I think it will all play soon.

Karl





Bazooka Joe wrote:
> I see you got dual boot working.
>
> Thunderbird under tools has a import feature. I would use that.  FF
> you should be able to export your favorites then import them into the
> new FF
>
> btw it is Ubuntu
>
> -bazooka
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 12:11 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>>     Hello and my name is Karl Larsen and I am just changing from Fedora
>> to Ubuntu Linux. The setup of Ubuntu was simple and getting a root
>> access was tricky but it is all good now. Fully updated last night.
>>
>>     Transferring both Firefox and Thunderbird details was easy going
>> from Fedora versions but nothing works transferred to Ubuntu. Version
>> wise the Firefox is 2.0.0.10 and Thunderbird is 2.0.0.9 and both from
>> yum to the Fedora servers.
>>
>>     The Ubuntu Firefox and Thunderbird were apt-get install from the
>> Ubuntu servers. Here is the problem.
>>
>>     Firefox stores it's information in /user/.moxilla and I put my F8
>> .mozilla in place of the original and now Firefox will not come up. I
>> can fix this by deleting /user/.mozilla and letting a new one be made.
>> What can I replace in .mozilla that will give it all the saved pages
>> from the older?
>>
>>     Thunderbird is also odd. In Fedora it's data is saved in
>> /user/.thunderbird/. The Ubunto Thunderbird seems not to like the older
>> data.
>>
>>     Has anyone had success with this kind of thing?
>>
>> Karl
>>
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