1. Prepare data for migration on Ubuntu.
| $ cd ~ $ tar cvfz mozilla-thunderbird-[YYYYMMDD].tgz .mozilla-thunderbird |
* YYYYMMDD such as 20080525 (2008 May, 28th)
** Be careful in front of “mozilla-thunderbird” has dot (.) .
2. Copy file backup (mozilla-thunderbird-[YYYYMMDD].tgz) from Ubuntu to Windows
3. Extract backup file.
4. Move Thunderbird directory on Windows to other location for backup such as
| C:\Documents and Settings\sketkeaw\Application Data\Thunderbird |
Move to
| C:\Documents and Settings\sketkeaw\Application Data\Thunderbird-Backup |
5. Create new directory C:\Documents and Settings\sketkeaw\Application Data\Thunderbird
6. Copy all file in .mozilla-thunderbird-[YYYYMMDD] to C:\Documents and Settings\sketkeaw\Application Data\Thunderbird
7. Edit file Profile.ini
From
| [General]StartWithLastProfile=1[Profile0]Name=defaultIsRelative=1Path=uob4v46z.default |
To
| [General] StartWithLastProfile=1[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=uob4v46z.default |
8. Save file Profile.ini and start Thunderbird program.
Thanks for this – made it very easy for me to migrate Thunderbird from Ubuntu 11.10 to Windows 7. Much appreciated!