[SOLVED] Problem changing thunderbird mail location

Pinonoir · 07-03-2014, 05:53 PM

Basically, what I want is to move my mail location to my usb drive. I made a directory in home named "usb". I want all my thunderbird mail to be imported into the usb on open, I mounted the usb at /home/pino/usb, however, when I tried to change the pop.mail folder to /home/pino/usb it lists said directory is invalid. I'm thinking it's simple to fix, but it is somewhat confusing.

jdkaye · 07-04-2014, 04:10 AM

I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to accomplish. Thunderbird typically keeps your specific mail and configuration details in a hidden folder called ~/.thunderbird. I suppose you could create a symbolic link between that folder and the one you want to create in "/home/pino/usb". Again, I don't really understand what it is you're trying to do. ~/usb is no more secure than ~/.thunderbird. You should be backing up your home folder in any event.
jdk

Pinonoir · 07-04-2014, 12:09 PM

What I'm trying to do is change where the mail is stored from the default to a usb. I'd like to move the storage location from the default to the usb directory.

jdkaye · 07-04-2014, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Pinonoir

What I'm trying to do is change where the mail is stored from the default to a usb. I'd like to move the storage location from the default to the usb directory.

Yes, but to what end? And why not simply create a symbolic link from the relevant parts of ~/.thunderbird to your usb folder as I suggested before?
jdk

Pinonoir · 07-05-2014, 09:27 PM

Seems to work now. Marking as solved.