Joe Hart wrote: > KS wrote: >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >>> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >>> >>>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting. >>>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing >>>> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might >>>> help. >>> The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files >>> are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for >>> this difference, everything is as the page suggests. >>> >> The reason for that one difference is that your profile location wasn't >> changed when thunderbird's settings changed from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird >> to ~/.thunderbird as the default location. Debian maintainers might have >> decided let the user use the old location than force them to change to >> the new one or create new accounts. > >> /KS > > > Why would they do that in the first place. If they (the maintainers) > were going to change it, wouldn't it make more sense to call it > .icedove? That happened with IceWeasel. > > Joe > The change from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~/.thunderbird happened much before Debian got Icedove. It was an upstream change.
/KS PS: replied to Joe directly by mistake. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]