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If you have the ~/.thunderbird folder from your previous installation it contains all the information/emails/contacts/etc. that you had before. I don't really understand what you mean by "When I link my email accounts to the other drive". How many home folders do you have? If your home folder is on your old drive have you changed your partition table to reflect this new situation?
jdk
Please note that you can keep your thunderbird profile anywhere. For example, I keep it on another partition which is mounted under ~/data so if I have a few systems on the laptop all of them are accessing using the same data. All of them have the following (notice: IsRelative: 0 and the Path value):
If you have the ~/.thunderbird folder from your previous installation it contains all the information/emails/contacts/etc. that you had before. I don't really understand what you mean by "When I link my email accounts to the other drive". How many home folders do you have? If your home folder is on your old drive have you changed your partition table to reflect this new situation?
jdk
If you setup Thunderbird new you can go to server settings and point to the mail account somewhere else if it exists.
If you setup Thunderbird new you can go to server settings and point to the mail account somewhere else if it exists.
Sorry, but is that a question or a statement? I use Thunderbird and I looked at Edit->Preferences and couldn't find any server settings. The server settings on Thunderbird have to do with account settings such as imap/pop3 and smtp servers. But those don't have anything to do with the location of the .thunderbird folder.
jdk
Sorry, but is that a question or a statement? I use Thunderbird and I looked at Edit->Preferences and couldn't find any server settings. The server settings on Thunderbird have to do with account settings such as imap/pop3 and smtp servers. But those don't have anything to do with the location of the .thunderbird folder.
jdk
At the bottom of the Server Settings window is says 'Local Directory', shows the directory and a browse button to change the path. It looks like this forum doesn't accept pics so I can't post it.
I'm glad you've been able to sort it out. As I said, this is about the settings for your email accounts. This has nothing to do with your question about finding your data and the location of .thunderbird. But I see that the last item of the settings page allows you to relocate the section of the .thunderbird file that deals with specific email accounts..
jdk
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