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Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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>>> Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Hi, |
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>>>> I have a new install and I want to move as little as possible to the new |
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>>>> /home partition. I really only want to save my emails and the filters |
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>>>> and nothing else. What do I need to copy to do this? I use Mozilla, |
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>>>> well Seamonkey now, for my email. |
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>>>> I would even like to loose some of the settings in Mozilla if I can. |
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>>>> Thanks |
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>>>> Dale |
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>>>> :-) :-) |
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>>> Doesn't "rm -r /new-home/Dale/.mozilla ; cp -a /old-home/Dale/.mozilla |
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>>> /new-home/Dale/" work? |
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>> I'm not sure to be honest. I have this too: |
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>>> root@smoker / # ls -l /home/dale/ |
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>>> total 371 |
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>>> drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 400 Sep 19 20:20 Desktop |
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>>> drwxrwxr-x 21 dale users 2560 Jan 23 2006 Mail |
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>>> <<< SNIP >>> |
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>>> root@smoker / # |
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>> I wasn't sure if the Mail directory needs to go or not. This install is |
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>> about 3 years old. I used to use Kmail but I'm not sure if this is left |
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>> overs from that or if Seamonkey uses it. I wanted to make sure before I |
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>> did it though. |
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>> I also wanted to loose all the Seamonkey, Mozilla, settings because I |
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>> can not get adblock to work anymore. All it ever says is "pending". I |
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>> wanted to keep email for sure and filters !IF! I can. I'll redo the |
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>> filters if I need to. |
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>> Won't copying the whole .mozilla directory copy settings and all? |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Well, I wrongly supposed I'd like to save all settings. If you don't |
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> want them saved, then I think the way to go is: |
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> 1) delete the .mozilla's dir /home/$USER/.mozilla |
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> 2) Start seamonkey in order to create a fresh home folder |
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> 3) Open seamonkey-mail. >> Edditt >> Account Setting >> Server Settings. |
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> Here you will find the directory under which the mail is saved. |
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> Something like: /home/$USER/.thunderbird/ia8thvk6.default/ (yes, mine |
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> is .thunderbird for obvious reasons ;-)) |
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> 4) In "/old-home/" you'll find a similar directory, where your mails are |
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> stored. Stop seamonkey, copy "old-folder/contents" into the freshh |
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> folder and start seamonkey again. |
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> The commands should be something like: |
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> rm -r /new-home/$USER/.mozilla/ |
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> start seamonkey, take that "funky" name from the account settings, close |
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> seamonky |
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> cp -a /old-home/$USER/.mozilla/XXXXXXXXXX/* |
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> /new-home/$USER/.mozilla/YYYYYYYYYY/ |
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> HTH |
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That sounds like a plan. I'll give it a try. It does come up with a |
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funky name for that directory don't it?? O_O |
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Thanks |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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