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Old 06-08-2012, 03:43 AM   #1
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Move Thunderbird profile onto FAT32, then set up in Windows - or another solution?


I've seen quite a number of tutorials on how to set up the joint Linux/Windows Thunderbird profiles, but I haven't found anything (maybe testament to my sub-par webs search skills!) on how to make an existing Linux Thunderbird installation (in /home/user...) accessible to / shared with a planned (but not yet done) Windows Thunderbird installation. Of note, I have a dualboot Fedora and Win 7.

Maybe I can go with another solution?

The reason why I need to set up Thunderbird in Windows is because I want to get a program to sync my Android directly to my PC, specifically to work with Thunderbird and Lightning (I don't want to go through the cloud). Unfortunately, the program that does this is only a Windows program. I already use Thunderbird on Linux, and I almost never boot into Windows, and so don't yet have Thunderbird installed in Windows.

I would like the contacts and calendar, post-synced, visible when I use Thunderbird in Linux. I don't plan to sync too often, since I never boot into Windows - and so I would never even really use Thunderbird in Windows apart from the syncing purpose - it would be there just to allow me to sync these contacts and calendar, ultimately, into Thunderbird which I use in Linux.

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction, or give me some thoughts / suggestions on ways to achieve these goals.

Thanks a ton!!

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Old 06-08-2012, 10:53 AM   #2
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I saw a post at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=893617 that discussed backing up Linux Thunderbird to Windows. It said that the user could copy /home/username/.thunderbird (I assume including *.default) to C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\[alphanumeric].default .

Looking at file descriptions, though, it seems that it would work if I manually copy the abook.mab (and other .mabs, if needed) from Windows to Linux, after doing my Andoird sync and then booting back into Linux. And I guess I should try then to also use ln - s to point to the Windows Thunderbird abook.mab to save myself the trouble of manually copying every time. What about Lightning - would it work if I simply copied the folder calendar-data? If not, I see there are Thunderbird add-ons, so it should work that way I think...
 
Old 06-08-2012, 12:55 PM   #3
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Hello,
I did something similarly, yet not sure where thunderbird was firstly installed, on windows or on linux.
Basically, copy everything from ~/Thunderbird/Profiles/ to some common directory, like D:\Thunderbird\Profiles
Put according path for every email account that you have, find it with right click on e-mail account - > Server settings-> Local directory.
This path shall be the same on linux and windows.
(I put this NTFS partition read/write for linux, and put it in /etc/fstab to load it with linux start up)

However, it worked for me, but some time ago, windows seems not to be able reading same files any more, I didn't search for answer, because I'm using windows quite rare.
Hope this help a bit.
 
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