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