Author: Simon Reap Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] restoring Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox from backup
Lisi wrote: > The "backup" is simply a copy of my husband's /home as it was on the now
> defunct installation. I do not want to copy everything back: just his
> document files (easy) and his email, or I could simply use the command I used
> to copy from /home to /backup to copy from /backup to /home.
> I think what you should have done here was to copy the backed-up files,
using their old name, to somewhere in the home directory, then start
thunderbird with "thunderbird -profilemanager". It comes up with a
small dialog - hit "Create Profile" then "Next", then hit "Choose
Folder" and select the restored backup (the funny4str.default directory,
or whatever it is called). When you accept the new profile with
"Finish", make sure it is the highlighted one in the list, and click
"Exit". Then simply restart Thunderbird and it will use your restored data.
I use the above on my Windows box. to put the Thunderbird files in "My
Documents" instead of being hidden away in "Application Data" - makes it
much easier to back them up. Also on my eeePC, I use it to put the
files on an SSD card.
As for the "already running", I think it is the "lock" file in the
profile directory - I'm pretty sure that this is the file i had to
remove to make it work on my eeePC once.
