[nzlug] Migrating details

[Ian Beardslee]

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From: Simon <>
To: NZLUG Mailing List <>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:26:58 +1200
Subject: [nzlug] Migrating details

> Someone wants to migrate from windows to linux, but they want to keep
> their IE and Outlook contacts etc. I know firefox and thunderbird will
> do this automatically when installed to windows. But how does one get
> that info to linux?
> 
> My idea was to save the appropriate (mozilla) files from windows, but
> there may be a better way known to the list... anyway, I don't know
> which files.

I did this a while ago.  Went from IE to Firefox on Windows and then
copied the FF profile across ... had to tweak the
~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini to point to the copied files.  Very easy.

Outlook contacts can be exported and imported .. from memory I had to
change one field - I should take notes.

I can't remember what I did with the Outlook Calendar.

For the email ... I went from Outlook to Thunderbird and then to Evolution
... would love to know a quicker way - it was far from seemless involved a
great deal of importing, exporting and copying email etc.

Ian