I have followed the detailed How To tutorial regarding exporting Thunderbird data from Windows and importing into Ubuntu. After editing the profiles.ini with the new default profile, I opened Thunderbird but no changes were made to the mail folders or address book. In Vista, the folders were imported correctly from Outlook. Please advise.
What's the output of Code: ls -la ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/ (you must run this as your desktop user)? What's in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini?
Results: bill@bill-desktop:~$ ls -la ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/ total 16 drwx------ 3 bill bill 4096 2008-04-08 17:03 . drwxr-xr-x 43 bill bill 4096 2008-04-11 10:14 .. drwx------ 4 bill bill 4096 2008-04-08 17:38 3hk4utrq.default -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 117 2008-04-08 16:47 profiles.ini bill@bill-desktop:~$ Profiles.ini: [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 #Path=36q73oen.default Path=3hk4utrq.default Any further help greatly appreciated.
Not sure if this is the problem, but can you try Code: chmod 755 ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/3hk4utrq.default ?
Tried the command, but didn't do the job (just goes back to the normal terminal prompt). I may be doing something erroneously. Tomorrow, I will go through the entire exercise including reinstalling T-bird in Vista, reimporting from Outlook, reinstalling T-bird in Ubuntu and giving your procedure another try. I only need to import the mail folders - I only have about 60 regular addresses in the address book and I can manually input those. Depending what happens, I'll report back.
I do not. I reinstalled everything, followed your tutorial to the letter, but all I get is the bare bones folders showing in T-bird after changing the profiles.ini to the imported profiles in Outlook. I am using Outlook 2007 - would that make a difference? Do you think Evolution would work better with your guide for importing to that app?
No, not if you can import the messages to your Windows' Thunderbird. I think it might be a permissions problem. Can you post the outputs of Code: ls -la ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/ and Code: ls -la ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/3hk4utrq.default again?
Here they are again: bill@bill-desktop:~$ ls -la ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/ total 20 drwx------ 3 bill bill 4096 2008-04-15 13:01 . drwxr-xr-x 44 bill bill 4096 2008-04-16 11:08 .. drwx------ 4 bill bill 4096 2008-04-15 14:46 3hk4utrq.default -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 117 2008-04-15 13:01 profiles.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 117 2008-04-14 15:22 profiles.ini~ bill@bill-desktop:~$ ls -la ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/3hk4utrq.default total 6944 drwx------ 4 bill bill 4096 2008-04-15 14:46 . drwx------ 3 bill bill 4096 2008-04-15 13:01 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 2346 2008-04-15 14:46 abook.mab -rw------- 1 bill bill 65536 2008-04-15 14:46 cert8.db -rw------- 1 bill bill 130 2008-04-14 15:16 compatibility.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 157835 2008-04-14 15:16 compreg.dat drwxr-xr-x 2 bill bill 4096 2008-04-14 15:16 extensions -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 318 2008-04-14 15:16 extensions.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 279 2008-04-14 15:16 extensions.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 3916 2008-04-14 15:16 extensions.rdf -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 1438 2008-04-15 13:13 history.mab -rw------- 1 bill bill 16384 2008-04-15 14:46 key3.db -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 6413 2008-04-15 14:46 localstore.rdf drwxr-xr-x 4 bill bill 4096 2008-04-14 15:18 Mail -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 2287 2008-04-15 14:46 panacea.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 0 2008-04-15 14:34 .parentlock -rw------- 1 bill bill 4726 2008-04-15 14:46 prefs.js -rw------- 1 bill bill 16384 2008-04-14 15:16 secmod.db -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 0 2008-04-15 14:34 urlclassifier2.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 10 2008-04-15 14:46 virtualFolders.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 1361123 2008-04-14 15:16 XPC.mfasl -rwx------ 1 bill bill 995786 2008-04-03 14:15 XPC.mfl -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 118940 2008-04-14 15:16 xpti.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 bill bill 2643516 2008-04-15 13:13 XUL.mfasl -rwx------ 1 bill bill 1622211 2008-04-14 14:10 XUL.mfl bill@bill-desktop:~$ If I look at the *.default folder, there is definitely data there in 2 files, about 1.5Mb. So the import works, now it's only the issue of stuffing it into T-bird. Hope you can get some insight out of this. What are the "permissions" of which you speak? Thanks for staying with me on this.
Is bill the username under that you're logged in to your desktop? Can you try Code: chmod -R 777 ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/3hk4utrq.default ?
This is the second time I tried that command, but it didn't work again. I'm about to give it up unless you have a new idea.
The command is different because this time it's recursive (-R) and has different permissions (777). But if it doesn't work, then I'm at my wit's end...
Same here, but thanks for your effort. When Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 goes to final release (next week) I will install it on the desktop machine and give T-bird another try. I have Hardy beta on my HP notebook and it has some features that work better than Gutsy 7.10. It's all a lot of experimentation.
