Transfering Local foldersafter move to new system

[Jim Byrnes]

On 11/4/25 9:30 AM, 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
>>
>> 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.
>>

I am on Mint but my local folders are at:

/home/my_name/.thunderbird/my_default_profile/Mail/Local Folders/

Regards,  Jim