I tried it. It did not work.
And what does this mean ?
You do have a backup and copy over doesn't work or you don't have a backup ?
you should be more specific, cause nobody knows what's currently up with your box !
if you got a backup:
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do you have the *elder* files ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini and ~/.thunderbird/installs.ini,
too ?
if so my profiles.ini looks like this (cat ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini):
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=hzy3mb56.default
Default=1
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2
[Install3DDF446CE6CB1A45]
Default=hzy3mb56.default
my installs.ini looks like this (cat ~/.thunderbird/installs.ini):
[3DDF446CE6CB1A45]
Default=hzy3mb56.default
- I currently don't know what this files is for -
ls -al ~/.thunderbird/ :
drwx------. 3 ron ron 4096 7. Okt 19:30 .
drwx------. 19 ron ron 4096 4. Okt 22:28 ..
drwx------. 7 ron ron 4096 11. Okt 08:31 hzy3mb56.default
-rw-r--r--. 1 ron ron 45 7. Okt 19:30 installs.ini
-rw-r--r--. 1 ron ron 166 7. Okt 19:30 profiles.ini
hzy3mb56.default is a directory and the name of *my* profile.
normally under that directory lives thunderbird (mails, calendars, adressbook, settings,
etc.)
- "normally" means NO DAV, etc. -
you need to fill that directory with *your* elder contents from your backup !!!
your profile name is different and needs to be exchanged with your *elder* profile name in
the files profiles.ini and installs.ini (see above Path= and Default=) !
also important user rights and ownership:
rights:
chmod 700 ~/.thunderbird/*.default (assuming your elder profile name ends on
".default")
chmod 644 ~/.thunderbird/*.ini
ownership: run the following command as user
chown -R <your-user-name>.<your-group-name> ~/.thunderbird
"your-group-name" is usually the same as "your-user-name" and in my
case the command is:
chown -R ron.ron ~/.thunderbird
thunderbird should *NOT* run during the whole above work !!!
please report !