[nzlug] Migrating details

[Toby Collett]

For quite a while with my laptop I ran dual boot (sharing my mail and
firefox profiles between linux and windows). The only issues are the file
paths in the profile. For mail I had to create two profiles and point them
both to the same mail store as the linux and windows paths were specified
differently.

I havent run windows for a couple of years so this may be easier now. So
basically as Matthew pointed out, you dont need to export/import, just bulk
copy the profiles once you get the data into windows firefox/thunderbird.

Toby

On 6/1/07, Matthew Poole <matt at p00le.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Simon wrote:
>
> > It looks like the easy plan is to install firefox and thunderbird to
> > windows and use their export tools to save the information. Though I
> > like the live disto idea.
> >
> Also being aware that the profiles created by Mozilla applications are
> transportable between OSes - that is, you can simply copy the directories
> between Windows, Linux and the BSDs (and I've done precisely this) and it
> "just works"[TM]. Not exactly elegant, but it's by far the simplest way of
> doing things.
>
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> Matthew Poole
> "Don't use force.  Get a bigger hammer."
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