Transfering Local foldersafter move to new system

[Keith]

On 11/4/2025 10:14 AM, Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> 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
> 
> In 24.04 Thunderbird is a snap package unless you installed it directly from Mozilla. Hence you will find the mail folders somewhere in $HOME/snap/thunderbird/ (sorry, I don't use TB, so I can't give you the entire path).
> 
> 

If the thunderbird profile directory is already ~/.thunderbird, then the 
snap packaged Thunderbird will create a symlink to it when it's launched 
for the first time.

~/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird -> ~/.thunderbird

-- 
Keith