Hi,
One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data, but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.
An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and then restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to CentOS?
Cheers,
Niki
On 10/26/2017 12:57 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data, but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.
An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and then restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to CentOS?
Cheers,
Niki
Should work just fine. I was running my computer as a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Linux Mint for a while. I shared the whole Thunderbird profile directory with both OS's. As I recall, the only issue was that the Lightning calendar add-on was OS-specific and would only work on one of the two unless I re-installed it for whichever OS I was on at the time.
Give it a shot. Most likely, you'll only have to re-install an add-on or two for the new OS.
dito, I usually just grabbed the ./thunderbird directory and moved it about regularly. ofc, b/u before movement.
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:
On 10/26/2017 12:57 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data, but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.
An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and then restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to CentOS?
Cheers,
Niki
Should work just fine. I was running my computer as a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Linux Mint for a while. I shared the whole Thunderbird profile directory with both OS's. As I recall, the only issue was that the Lightning calendar add-on was OS-specific and would only work on one of the two unless I re-installed it for whichever OS I was on at the time.
Give it a shot. Most likely, you'll only have to re-install an add-on or two for the new OS.
-- Bowie
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