Transfering Local foldersafter move to new system

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2025 05:24:52 -0600, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

>Everything is working well except I am missing all of my Local folders. 
>I have them in the .thunderbird directory,

Just curious:
What do you mean by "Local folders"?

Are these directories below the user's home dir or what?

If so could you not do something similar to:

 sudo mv present-location/topdirectory /users/youruser/targetdirectory

But your mention of .thbunderbird makes me think you are talking about something
completely different from the file system....

Btw .thunderbird does not reside in /, correct?
Where exactly is it?

About 9 months ago I have migrated from an older system to the latest Ubuntu on
new modern hardware and I attached the old system disk to the new device and
then used sudo rsync to transfer the whole /home/username dir including
everyhting inside and it worked just fine.



-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden