Well. Result happiness with Firefox at least. With regard to Thunderbird, things are a touch more complicated. This may be my fault of course. How do I get it to recognise my old profile as the default? I now have three. It's not good.
Bev.
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2023 at 11:06 AM From: "Bev Nicolson" lumos@gmx.co.uk To: "Nev Young" alug@nevilley.org.uk Cc: alug-main main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Re: Fw: Re: Re: Transferring settings and data from Firefox and Thunderbird
Result happiness! Thank you.
Bev
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2023 at 10:28 AM From: "Nev Young" alug@nevilley.org.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Re: Fw: Re: Re: Transferring settings and data from Firefox and Thunderbird
In my experience, (from just two weeks ago when I replaced my old laptop for a new one).
If you copy ~/.mozilla from your old system to the new one, the file structure will be created. Firefox will pick it up on the first run. n.b. it's ~/.moz... not ~/.Moz... Remember Linux is case sensitive and files starting with a dot are hidden!
YMMV.
Nev
On 13/10/2023 08:58, Bev Nicolson wrote:
How do I find the right location for the profile? There isn't a ~/.Mozilla directory on this. Do I need to use Firefox once on this laptop before I can swap over to the saved profile?
Bev.
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2023 at 10:02 PM From: "Bev Nicolson" lumos@gmx.co.uk To: alug-main main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Re: Transferring settings and data from Firefox and Thunderbird
I will be moving from Mint to Mint.
On that, though, I'm getting a 124 gb usb stick. Will that be enough/far more than enough to download Mint 21.2 LTS onto? (I find this much easier with a dvd but of course new laptops don't have such ancient drives on them anymore.)
Bev.
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 3:26 PM From: mick mbm@rlogin.net To: "Nev Young" alug@nevilley.org.uk Cc: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Re: Transferring settings and data from Firefox and Thunderbird
On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:11:47 +0100 Nev Young alug@nevilley.org.uk allegedly wrote:
Just copy the directories ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird from the old laptop to the new laptop should do it. Nev
That is OK so long as you upgrade/move to the same (or very similar) OS distro. But beware if you move from somthing like Mint to Debian. Debian ships with a non-standard firefox (a long term support version and not the mozilla-binary version) which means that you cannot just port over your existing home directory structure including the mozilla sub-directories and configuration files.
Mick
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