Jim Wrote: > When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w > priviledges in Mail folders to r only. and you say no way, well i'm > sitting here looking at the mail folders on the dvd and all of them say > 'read' > > In the past I noticed if I move the .thunderbird folder onto a hard > drive or flash drive I had no problems of putting the .thunderbird > folder onto a new upgrade/install and it would work perfectly. I don't think I've ever burned a recordable DVD or CD with files that didn't all become read-only. I believe that's the nature of the beast. Just change the folder (and enclosed file) permissions to writable after you copy it from the DVD. I do this all the time. But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will maintain file permissions and ownership. For example.... $ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/ Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD. See "man tar" for more info. Scott -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
