Am 25.06.2010 18:05, schrieb Bob Goodwin: > It seems I ask this question after every new Fedora release. How do > I go about transferring my Thunderbird pop mail files from this F-12 > computer to a second computer running F-13. > > I've been running Redhat and Fedora Linux since 1999 and have never > once succeeded in transferring my mail files. > > Can anyone tell me where to look for a clear and simple step by step > procedure for doing this? My daughter manages to keep her mail > messages [on her Mac] back to the beginning of time, mine never go > back much more than six months, some I would like to keep. > > The computers are all tied to our LAN, I can put files on a flash > drive, cdrom, etc. but my effort never seem to be able to get the > job done. I will try anything ... > > Bob > > I do a backup of my home-directory on an ext2-formatted USB stick alike cd tar -czf /media/.../home.tgz * .thunderbird .ssh .mozilla During install, I reformat my /home partition; I always do a total reformatting of all Fedora partitions and a clean new install. On the new system, prior to any use of firefox/tunderbird, cd tar -xcf /media/.../home.tgz and all goes well. My desktop is gnome, maybe you have to replace "/media/" if you use a different desktop. You have to replace "/.../" by the real name of your stick (which will occur on your desktop). If you home directory is large, use any reformatted external USB hard disk. Joerg -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
