-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Couple of months back, the hard drive on one of my machines has gone bad. > That machine used to run thunderbird (dont remember which version) and all > my email was stored in /home/username/.mozilla-thunderbird . I copied the > old /home partition (from backups) onto a new machine's /home/username. > However when I run icedove now, it is not recognizing the fact that my > email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. > > The ~/.thunderbird directory is empty. The new machine runs Debian Etch > (testing), icedove 1.5.0.10. I cannot recall the old machine's thunderbird > version, but it was also running Etch. > > 1) What is the default location where icedove stores all its files? I looked > at the man page of icedove, README.Debian.gz but none of them mention this. > > 2) Is there any way to tell icedove to migrate all the old emails to its > newer (if any) default location? > > Any other suggestions/ideas on this issue are also welcome. > > thanks > raju >
This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on yours. When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example. #Begin file [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=/media/share/Mail #end file See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGESgCiXBCVWpc5J4RAtl4AKCQ/b7Qh3dO+bk8J8m7id9+oHtB7wCglxXU 8ilJ6g5KgycyiqESk/Mx9bE= =akUY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
