~/Jim wrote: > Copied old Mail folder from FC8 into FC11 thunderbird, and checked all how did you copy them into new thunderbird? if you copied path of 'Mail' directory, then you will need to copy it into your profile directory and replace 'Mail' in new install. actual *email* folders start in directory _below_ 'Mail'. in 'Mail' directory, you will find 'Local Folders' and directories for each of your email service providers. thunderbird reads below these directories for actual email. > file permissions and they are r/w, Folders are view/modify , you also have to have directories and files assigned to correct user. that is, if you copied them as root, did you 'chown -R jim:jim *'? also, directories must be 'rwx' to pass thru them. > but thunderbird still won't read old email and it's there. where? like, give me a path from your profile directory. it should be on an order of; /home/jim/.thunderbird/????????.default/Mail/Local Folders/ '????????.default' is your profile directory. if you copied your old 'Mail' directly to you profile directory, it should work. that is if you did so before you started using thunderbird. to explain further, if before you ever started thunderbird, you copied your entire old '~/.thunderbird/' path to your new home directory, everything you had setup in old install will carry to new install. if you copied 'Mail' into your profile directory, then you will have to set up your new configurations, but you will have all your email folder structure maintained. last, but most important, you *must* re index your email. to do this, go to your profile directory and run these 2 commands with thunderbird closed; 'rm -f panacea.dat' 'rm -fR *.msf' 'panacea.dat' is main index file for all email files and directories. '*.msf' are individual index files for each email folder and subfolder. when you open thunderbird, these file will be recreated and you will note that it will take a few minutes for these files to be built. one more 'gotcha' is that you must maintain what ever user name you were using before and you must have same profile directory name. these 2 are used in several files in your profile directory and if they are not correct, you could have problems. remember 'cyoa', cover your own ass, be sure you have a backup made before you start mucking around. something i always do before i play with thunderbird or firefox and just for fun every couple of weeks, is i will make a backup of both paths so that i have something to fall back on if i have problems. from my home directory, i run; 'cp .mozilla .mozilla.000x' 'cp .thunderbird .thunderbird.000x'. hth. later. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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