How can I transfer all messages and contacts of thunderbird with windows 7 to thunderbird ubuntu 14.04?
I know that have a free app called mozbackup. But it don't works with linux.
There a way that can I make this moving?
Thanks!
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How can I transfer all messages and contacts of thunderbird with windows 7 to thunderbird ubuntu 14.04?
I know that have a free app called mozbackup. But it don't works with linux.
There a way that can I make this moving?
Thanks!
Best Answer
First, copy the contents of
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles
on your Windows 7 machine to your Linux machine. Make sure you get atleast one folder with a name consisting of a random string of characters and then a name - e.g.x90j7qn5.Default User
Then create a directory called
~/.thunderbird
, and copy the files into it, and note down the name of the file. Then runthunderbird -profilemanager
to open this:Click Create Profile..., and pick the location of the file you just copied to
~/thunderbird
(e.g./home/YOUR_USERNAME/thunderbird/x90j7qn5.Default User
)Though apparently this should work cross-platform, I think you may need the same or similar versions of Thunderbird for this to work properly.
Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/diy-it-guy/diy-back-up-and-migrate-a-thunderbird-profile-and-folders/