Transfering Local foldersafter move to new system

[Jay Ridgley]

On 11/4/25 09:02, Bo Berglund wrote:
> 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"?
The Local Folders which are shown within Thunderbird Mail which is at 
.thunderbird
>
> 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?
On my system it is shown here: /home/jay/.thunderbird
>
> 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.
>
Unfortunately, I do not have that option.
>
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Jay Ridgley
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