Systems Edge. Migrating windows thunderbird
emails, accounts, address books to
Linux Mandriva 2010

            For instruction on how to transfer emails, accounts, settings
            from Microsoft Outlook Express to Windows Thunderbird and make a backup.
visit. http://systems-edge.co.uk/thunderbird/index.html    

Please substitute user name “tony” to “you user name”

  (a)  Install thunderbird from your Mandriva control panel
  (b)  Install Krusader file manager from Mandriva control panel
  (c)  Launch Krusader file manager
  (d)  Click on the 3 coloured disks select /home/tony on left hand side of the panel
  (e)  On the right hand window click on the 3 coloured disks select /home/tony/.thunderbird.

   (f)   Delete the files and folders in /home/tony/.thunderbird in the right hand window

 (g) Exit Krusader file manager

 (h)  Launch Mandriva control panel from the task bar (monitor with red button)

 (i) Select install and remove software

  (j)  Click on mozilla-thunderbird to uninstall thunderbird
      EXIT

  (k)   Launch Krusader
       Click on the 3 coloured disks select /home/tony on left hand side of the panel

       On the right hand window click on the 3 coloured disks locate your backup of thundebird
        enter the path of your backup of thunderbird profiles /.thunderbird
     

       Copy and paste all the files (crash reports dir, profiles.dir, profiles.ini ,registry.dat) to the left hand window)
       /home/tony/.thunderbird

  (L)     Reinstall thunderbird from the control panel

  Close the control panel

   (m)       Open Krusader

               If using usb memory stick Select TOOLS, MOUNTMAN. UNMOUNT your memory stick
   (n)       Terminate Krusader then restart Krusader

   (o)        Open a terminal window   (small black monitor located in the internet drop down menu)

           [tony@localhost ~]$ su
           Password:    (enter your root password)
           [root@localhost tony]# cd /home/tony
           [root@localhost tony]# chown -R tony:tony .thunderbird
           [root@localhost tony]# chmod -R 700 .thunderbird

           EXIT  CTRL+d
         ls –l is not necessary but shows permissions  (.thunderbird   “.”= hidden folder. usel ls -L lower case l not 1)
    [root@localhost tony]# ls -l .thunderbird

        total 48
        drwx------ 2 tony tony  4096 2010-01-11 20:18 Crash Reports/
        drwx------ 3 tony tony  4096 2010-01-11 20:18 Profiles/
         -rwx------ 1 tony tony   111 2010-01-10 18:41 profiles.ini*
         -rwx------ 1 tony tony   335 2010-01-10 18:41 registry.dat*

     [root@localhost tony]# cd .thunderbird

            [root@localhost .thunderbird]# ls -l
                       total 48
            drwx------ 2 tony tony  4096 2010-01-11 20:18 Crash Reports/
            drwx------ 3 tony tony  4096 2010-01-11 20:18 Profiles/
            -rwx------ 1 tony tony   111 2010-01-10 18:41 profiles.ini*
            -rwx------ 1 tony tony   335 2010-01-10 18:41 registry.dat*
           [root@localhost .thunderbird]#

   (p)  click on the thunderbird icon on in the internet panel