Comments on: How to Transfer Thunderbird Profile from Windows to Ubuntu 8.04

By: Mauritius

Mauritius — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:29:46 +0000

Trying to setup a work environment in linux ubuntu. Its not a simple copy and paste issue like you do in windows. It does require time and research. Your small piece of advice above helped save hours of trying to make it work! Greetings from the tropics.

By: pascal

pascal — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:31:02 +0000

Unbuntu 10.04 worked perfectly first time thanks for help

By: Simon Speed

Simon Speed — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:53:17 +0000

Ubuntu 9.10 karmic – worked perfectly first time.

By: at

at — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:31:12 +0000

Great, clear instructions for a Ubuntu noob. I copied my profiles from the windows partition (10GB) and had an error “T’bird already running,..” Checked your instructions again, and I had copied the whole direcetory up one level of the tree, so when I followed what you said EXACTLY, it worked like magic. so long as the oooooo.default dir was at the same level as the .ini file.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:47:33 +0000

Hi, thanks for this tutorial. It saved me a LOT of hassle!! Just started Thunderbird in Linux and it has my everything I need right there in place. Awesome.

By: Simone T.

Simone T. — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:09:11 +0000

Thank you very much for your post!

By: Jeremy Clulow

Jeremy Clulow — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:14:59 +0000

Hi, I’m trying to migrate to Linux Mint from XP but first need to become more familiar with it on a separate machine. Thanks to this I now copy the mail directory and profile directory on a flash drive over to the laptop running Mint and carry on work. Excellent.

By: Jarod

Jarod — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:06:02 +0000

AWESOME! Very slick, worked like a charm.

By: Ric Lambart

Ric Lambart — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:54:21 +0000

Seoras,

After messing around (an Ubuntu 9.04 novice) for hours with various recommendations obtained over Google on how to bring the Ubuntu TBird up with the same profile as one had/has in XP, I came across your extremely clear cut and overly (seemingly) simple procedure. I followed it to the “T” – - – and, “voila!”

Thanks to you, I am now in business with a new TBird in Ubuntu that’s exactly the same as the one on my other XP machines. Bravo. Job well done. You’re an excellent instructor. (I had been looking for the same profile as that I found in the Windows installation of TBird, but couldn’t find it in Ubuntu – anywhere. The trick was to change the view so all files were visible. Your “Voila!” proved most accurate.

Thanks!
ric lambart

By: Ralph Hummel

Ralph Hummel — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:43:52 +0000

Thanks a bunch for this primer… I am just getting started with a Windows / Ubuntu migration and this definitely helped a lot.