Porting from Windows to Linux
I have a Thunderbird email account on a Windows PC & wish to move it to a new Linux PC. On Windows I used the Export facility to save the entire account to a zip file, transferred that file to Linux & used the Thunderbird import facility.
This failed immediately...
- The Thunderbird main desktop window vanished, leaving no progress feedback.
- I gave it quite a long time to complete the process but there was no further feedback.
- I then right-clicked the icon, Quit Thunderbird & re-started it. No desktop window opened.
- The only thing that worked from the right-click pop-up was the Write New Message function which did open a new email message.
- I then uninstalled Thunderbird selecting the full uninstall option to get rid of any account data, & re-installed it.
- Still the same problem: no main desktop window, & only Write New Message works.
Any advice on what may be wrong & how to fix it would be much appreciated.
I have a Thunderbird email account on a Windows PC & wish to move it to a new Linux PC. On Windows I used the Export facility to save the entire account to a zip file, transferred that file to Linux & used the Thunderbird import facility.
This failed immediately...
* The Thunderbird main desktop window vanished, leaving no progress feedback.
* I gave it quite a long time to complete the process but there was no further feedback.
* I then right-clicked the icon, ''Quit'' Thunderbird & re-started it. No desktop window opened.
* The only thing that worked from the right-click pop-up was the ''Write New Message'' function which did open a new email message.
* I then uninstalled Thunderbird selecting the full uninstall option to get rid of any account data, & re-installed it.
* Still the same problem: no main desktop window, & only ''Write New Message'' works.
Any advice on what may be wrong & how to fix it would be much appreciated.
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First, I am no Linux guru. Here is how I did it:
- click help>troubleshootinginformation
- scroll down to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder
- exit thunderbird
- you are now in windows file explorer, click the back button twice to get to the ...appdata\roaming\thunerbird\Profiles folder
- from there, highlight and copy the desired profile folder to external media
Next on Linux
- be sure thunderbird is not running
- locate the .thunderbird folder and paste your profile there
- edit the profiles.ini file (it's a simple text file) to point to your profile\
- start thunderbird
The above assumes the installation of thunderbird's default profile was to .thunderbird. I am not familiar with flatpak or other setups.