[LINK] Moved to Linux

[Kim Holburn]

On 2006 Sep 10, at 6:18 PM, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> However, this has several flow-on effects that the Linspire people  
> don't seem to have thought of.
>
> For example, moving my Thunderbird mail profiles from the old hard  
> drive meant I had to find out where the copies went, and putting  
> the copies in the right directory. This directory is only  
> accessible as root, which means you have to enable the root  
> account, change to the root account, and put the files in the right  
> place; then you have to log out, log in as the user, and open  
> Thunderbird to see if it can see the accounts.  Moreover, because  
> there are at least three directories called Thunderbird-mail- 
> profile (one in user, one in root, and one which doesn't seem to  
> relate to anything but is there anyway), this involves a lot of  
> shuffling between directories.

That doesn't sound right to me.  Thunderbird profiles should be  
somewhere in your home directory owned by you.  There should be no  
profiles anywhere else owned by root.


Kim

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