Re: Fedora 12: Have Hard Drive, Want To Test

[Sergey Rudchenko <sergey rudchenko gmail com>]

On 07.09.2009 3:31, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> The worst problem for me (it forced me to take out the hard drive that 
> 12 Alpha is installed on and replace it with the one for Fedora 11) is 
> that for some reason, Thunderbird on 12 Alpha won't recognize my email 
> files in the .thunderbird directory that I had tarred up in Fedora 11 
> and then transferred to the 12 system. That is, I tarred up everything 
> in my Fedora 11 .thunderbird directory and untarred it in my new home 
> directory with the Fedora 12 box. I've done this successfully so many 
> times while traveling, on other Fedora releases, that I'm surprised it 
> doesn't 'just work'. Every time I start Thunderbird, it doesn't seem 
> to notice there are mail folders in the .thunderbird directory and 
> insists on launching an "email setup" wizard. I do have more than 1 Gb 
> of email data...maybe this is affecting the Fedora 12 version of 
> Thunderbird.
Do you have a folder like ~/.shredder? Pre-release thunderbird 3.0 is 
called "Shredder" IIRC.
If yes, backup your ~/.thuderbird and try to make a ~/.shredder symlink.

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Best regards,
Sergey Rudchenko