Correction, it's just two. One clearly has more in it than the other.
But having considered things, I'm minded to use Betterbird (now installed) which looks like the old Thunderbird and would accept the same profile. How do I manage this?
Bev.
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2023 at 4:13 PM From: "Bev Nicolson" lumos@gmx.co.uk To: alug-main main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Fw: Re: [ALUG] Re: Fw: Re: Re: Transferring settings and data from Firefox and Thunderbird
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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