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From: Bill Martin on 24 May 2010 21:50
Hi all,

Not a Linux guru, have been using Fedora somewhat casually and would
liked to migrate to "Mint" without losing all my Tbird email folders.
Any good place to look for a how-to on this?

TIA,
bill m
From: Matt Giwer on 25 May 2010 20:23
On 05/24/2010 09:50 PM, Bill Martin wrote:
> Hi all,

> Not a Linux guru, have been using Fedora somewhat casually and would
> liked to migrate to "Mint" without losing all my Tbird email folders.
> Any good place to look for a how-to on this?

copy the .thunderbird file and then restore it.

Hard drives are so cheap these days and a good enough one probably in an old
computer you have that the OS should be installed on it and a symlink to the
data disk added in the root directory.

ln -s /mountpoint/data_drive/home home

Any drive of 10GB or so should be big enough to install linux, definitely
20GB is big enough. A little searching and you can find cheap 40GB drives
almost any place, cheap as in under $40 and often much less.

I have been doing this for years without a problem. This way you can install
the latest release as easily as updating the previous release and nothing
changes once the symlink directs home to the data drive. There is no risk of
data loss, nothing to backup and reinstall.

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where you keep the spare bulbs. It is a very
strange feeling.
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Tue May 25 20:06:44 EDT 2010
From: Bill Martin on 26 May 2010 21:27
Matt Giwer wrote:
> On 05/24/2010 09:50 PM, Bill Martin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>
>> Not a Linux guru, have been using Fedora somewhat casually and would
>> liked to migrate to "Mint" without losing all my Tbird email folders.
>> Any good place to look for a how-to on this?
>
> copy the .thunderbird file and then restore it.
>
> Hard drives are so cheap these days and a good enough one probably
> in an old computer you have that the OS should be installed on it and a
> symlink to the data disk added in the root directory.
>
> ln -s /mountpoint/data_drive/home home
>
> Any drive of 10GB or so should be big enough to install linux,
> definitely 20GB is big enough. A little searching and you can find cheap
> 40GB drives almost any place, cheap as in under $40 and often much less.
>
> I have been doing this for years without a problem. This way you can
> install the latest release as easily as updating the previous release
> and nothing changes once the symlink directs home to the data drive.
> There is no risk of data loss, nothing to backup and reinstall.
>
Thanks, I had hoped it might be this simple...but when in doubt, ask!

bill
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