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local IMAP folders lost in thunderbird upgrade

Asked by Russ Button

I've been a firefox/thunderbird user for a couple of years now (before that I just used mozilla for everything). Pretty cool. I've always used IMAP with thunderbird - never POP.

My platform of choice is Ubuntu Dapper. I moved over from FC2 a year ago or so haven't looked back.

One thing I've found endlessly annoying is that my local IMAP folders seem to keep showing up empty or I can't copy things into them. It finally occurred to me that perhaps they didn't get brought over in one of the various thunderbird upgrades. I now have both ~/.thunderbird and ~/.mozilla-thunderbird directories. Additionally in ~/.thunderbird, there are two directories labed "default" which hold all of the settings goodies, IMAP folders, etc...

So it looks like in running a newer rev of thunderbird, a dot-file settings directory gets made and not everything gets pulled over.

Can someone please help me get my local IMAP folders back in operation?

Coolness,

Russ

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Terence Simpson (tsimpson) said : 		#1

you should just be able to copy everything into the new directory then restart thunderbird and all will be back.

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