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nagora
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 Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 11:49 am Post subject: Moving from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin? [solved] |
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I tried this a while ago since it takes literally all day to compile TB but it didn't pick up any of my config/history/etc so I froze TB until -bin was on a later version but trying again today it still fails to see the old data.
Has anyone managed to non-destructively move from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin?
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Hu
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes. It broke the theme and I still don't have it looking quite right, but all the mail and server settings came over cleanly. |
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nagora
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| Hu wrote: | | Yes. It broke the theme and I still don't have it looking quite right, but all the mail and server settings came over cleanly. |
Did you have to do anything beyond emerging thunderbird-bin? Did you backup and restore any directories or anything like that? |
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Hu
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't recall doing any of those, no. |
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kukibl
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin? |
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| nagora wrote: | | ...it still fails to see the old data. |
Maybe you should run it from console with "-p" flag, in order to load your existing profile.
| nagora wrote: | | Has anyone managed to non-destructively move from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin? |
I did it last year without any issue. There wasn't any particular intervention from my side. Backup your $HOME/.thunderbird directory first, of course. |
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figueroa
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 2:39 am Post subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin? |
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| kukibl wrote: | ...
Maybe you should run it from console with "-p" flag, in order to load your existing profile.
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That's a capital P, i.e. thunderbird -P or thunderbird-bin -P. That will let you choose your profile in case multiple profiles are installed.
Added: See the output of thunderbird --help or thunderbird-bin --help for list of other options.
I have moved back and forth between locally compiled and -bin multiple times over many years. Currently running thunderbird-bin and very happy with it. I have easily migrated many machines from one version of Linux to another by copying the entire ~/.thunderbird directory.
By default, your configuration should be in ~/.thunderbird.
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kukibl
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 8:27 pm Post subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin? |
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| figueroa wrote: |
That's a capital P, i.e. thunderbird -P or thunderbird-bin -P. That will let you choose your profile in case multiple profiles are installed.
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Try it with lowercase P, you'll be surprised.  |
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figueroa
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 8:36 pm Post subject: Re: Moving from Thunderbird to Thunderbird-bin? |
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| kukibl wrote: | | figueroa wrote: |
That's a capital P, i.e. thunderbird -P or thunderbird-bin -P. That will let you choose your profile in case multiple profiles are installed.
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Try it with lowercase P, you'll be surprised. |
I'm willing to be wrong, but I don't like being surprised by trying undocumented tricks.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, everyone. The -p fixed it. |
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