On 2013-01-02 21:37, Walter Bright wrote:
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.
Copying the thunderbird profile directory should do the trick:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
I've created a symlink for the newsgroups messages pointing to dropbox
to get synchronization.
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/Jacob Carlborg
