Transferring settings and data from Firefox and Thunderbird
It looks like I will be getting another laptop as my old one is reaching the end of the road. I want to be certain about what I'll be doing, hence asking. What I want to do is transfer all the bookmarks (I have *a lot*), passwords and settings for Firefox over. Is creating a profile the easiest way of doing that? I also want to ensure I have the folders of old emails saved in Thunderbird somewhere safe. Those are emails I have stored on the laptop, not online. Transferring Thunderbird's settings would be a bonus too. If I create a Thunderbird profile, will it do both of those things? Bev.
On 17/09/2023 16:15, Bev Nicolson wrote:
It looks like I will be getting another laptop as my old one is reaching the end of the road. I want to be certain about what I'll be doing, hence asking.
What I want to do is transfer all the bookmarks (I have *a lot*), passwords and settings for Firefox over. Is creating a profile the easiest way of doing that?
Easiest? Not sure. However, it won't do any harm - as long as you're happy with Mozilla having your data. Create an account. Tell it you want to sync bookmarks, and everything else. Force it to synchronize. Do the same on your other laptop and the bookmarks etc should appear. I find this convenient to access tabs between devices. There is another way. There are articles like this... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-pr... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1409852 Finding the profile is OK. Backing up the profile is OK. Making the new laptop use the existing profile, I'm not sure that any of the links make that 100% clear, but there are articles somewhere that do.
I also want to ensure I have the folders of old emails saved in Thunderbird somewhere safe. Those are emails I have stored on the laptop, not online. Transferring Thunderbird's settings would be a bonus too. If I create a Thunderbird profile, will it do both of those things?
I recently looked to see if I could see "create a Thunderbird profile." I couldn't find it. So I think it's backup the data and the profile again, and restore, then force it to use the old profile again. (That said, there is an export and import option on the Tools menu.) This looks helpful: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-comput... Just make sure that you locate whereever the email folders are and backup and copy them over. Good luck. Steve
On 17/09/2023 16:15, Bev Nicolson wrote:
It looks like I will be getting another laptop as my old one is reaching the end of the road. I want to be certain about what I'll be doing, hence asking.
What I want to do is transfer all the bookmarks (I have *a lot*), passwords and settings for Firefox over. Is creating a profile the easiest way of doing that?
Easiest? Not sure. However, it won't do any harm - as long as you're happy with Mozilla having your data. Create an account. Tell it you want to sync bookmarks, and everything else. Force it to synchronize. Do the same on your other laptop and the bookmarks etc should appear. I find this convenient to access tabs between devices. There is another way. There are articles like this... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-pr... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1409852 Finding the profile is OK. Backing up the profile is OK. Making the new laptop use the existing profile, I'm not sure that any of the links make that 100% clear, but there are articles somewhere that do.
I also want to ensure I have the folders of old emails saved in Thunderbird somewhere safe. Those are emails I have stored on the laptop, not online. Transferring Thunderbird's settings would be a bonus too. If I create a Thunderbird profile, will it do both of those things?
I recently looked to see if I could see "create a Thunderbird profile." I couldn't find it. So I think it's backup the data and the profile again, and restore, then force it to use the old profile again. (That said, there is an export and import option on the Tools menu.) This looks helpful: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-comput... Just make sure that you locate whereever the email folders are and backup and copy them over. Good luck. Steve PS this may help https://www.makeuseof.com/migrate-firefox-profile-another-computer/
Just copy the directories ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird from the old laptop to the new laptop should do it. Nev On 17/09/2023 16:15, Bev Nicolson wrote:
It looks like I will be getting another laptop as my old one is reaching the end of the road. I want to be certain about what I'll be doing, hence asking.
What I want to do is transfer all the bookmarks (I have *a lot*), passwords and settings for Firefox over. Is creating a profile the easiest way of doing that?
I also want to ensure I have the folders of old emails saved in Thunderbird somewhere safe. Those are emails I have stored on the laptop, not online. Transferring Thunderbird's settings would be a bonus too. If I create a Thunderbird profile, will it do both of those things?
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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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 blog: baldric.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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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On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:02:34 +0200 Bev Nicolson <lumos@gmx.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
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.
More than enough Bev. Mint MATE is about 3 GB in size. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 blog: baldric.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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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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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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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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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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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make sure thunderbird is closed down first. then copy ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini from the old machine to the new one. (this should've happened when you copied ~/.thunderbird) this is the file that points to your profile. you can look at it, it's just text. if you really need to, you can edit it. sorry for late/slow reply. My message was rejected by the moderator. Nev On 13/10/2023 15:13, Bev Nicolson wrote:
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.
make sure thunderbird is closed down first. then copy ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini from the old machine to the new one. (this should've happened when you copied ~/.thunderbird) this is the file that points to your profile. you can look at it, it's just text. if you really need to, you can edit it. sorry for late/slow reply. My message was rejected by the moderator. (twice) Nev On 13/10/2023 15:13, Bev Nicolson wrote:
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.
Would have asked sooner but my account got disabled because messages kept bouncing to this address. (A gmx thing, I think.) This is reply to a comment on the archive list. Should the profiles.ini file be in the profile folder? I have edited the profile text so that the default profile file has the same name as teh profile folder, but it still won't 'see' it. (I've had stuff to think about recently so my mind may not be entirley focussed.) Bev On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 09:28 +0100, Nev Young wrote:
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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The answer to this would appear to be no. I'm still having trouble (can't bring up the profile manager now either) so it looks like starting again might be the best move. What's the best way of doing that, if that's not an obvious question? Do I need to purge the cache too, for example? Indeed, *is* this the best option? Bev On Thu, 2023-10-26 at 23:59 +0100, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Would have asked sooner but my account got disabled because messages kept bouncing to this address. (A gmx thing, I think.)
This is reply to a comment on the archive list.
Should the profiles.ini file be in the profile folder? I have edited the profile text so that the default profile file has the same name as teh profile folder, but it still won't 'see' it. (I've had stuff to think about recently so my mind may not be entirley focussed.)
Bev
On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 09:28 +0100, Nev Young wrote:
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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Just copy the directories ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird from the old laptop to the new laptop should do it. Nev On 17/09/2023 16:15, Bev Nicolson wrote:
It looks like I will be getting another laptop as my old one is reaching the end of the road. I want to be certain about what I'll be doing, hence asking.
What I want to do is transfer all the bookmarks (I have *a lot*), passwords and settings for Firefox over. Is creating a profile the easiest way of doing that?
I also want to ensure I have the folders of old emails saved in Thunderbird somewhere safe. Those are emails I have stored on the laptop, not online. Transferring Thunderbird's settings would be a bonus too. If I create a Thunderbird profile, will it do both of those things?
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