On 1/2/2013 12:01 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
P.S. I like calendar programs, but on Windows and Ubuntu, upgrading the
OS inevitably deletes the calendar database. None of those frackin'
calendar programs ever deign to tell me where they store their frackin'
database, so I can back it up. I really, really don't understand mail
and calendar programs that make it difficult to back up the data. I quit
using Outlook Express because it stored the mail database in a hidden
directory. WTF? Thunderbird is better, but not much.
On latest Windows OS-es almost everything is in AppData\Roaming +
AppData\Roaming in \Users directory. Just copying them over and reinstalling the
apps seems to work (I only tried Thunderbird and couple of others though).
Windows has gotten better in this regard, that is true.
But it's still bizarre that, with Thunderbird, you can export/import the address
book, but not the mail database.
A welcome improvement would be to have a button to export/import the whole
farkin' thing.
Instead, when I installed TB on my laptop, I had to open the account settings on
my desktop, and screen by screen, manually copy the data into my laptop TB
install. A long and tedious and error-prone process, as there are endless
screens and config settings.
