How to Setup Thunderbird using old data previously from XP

How did you save the profile? Did you copy the thunderbird folder directly from the old system??

Thunderbird folder (.thunderbird) is hidden on your home directory.

* Press Ctrl+H to access hidden files and folders in your Ubuntu machine *

Just copy C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird to /home/username/.thunderbird

HTH.

I'm not sure I follow... I can start THunderbird in Ubuntu, but I want to load the old messages and so forth which are saved. Do you understand what I mean? the question is how to load the old stuff into Thunderbird.

Yes, I know very well that you can start Thunderbird in Ubuntu as it comes installed in your system. Now for the question of how you are to load/migrate your old stuff onto Ubuntu's Thunderbird, just follow the copying steps outlined above.

Copy all files and folders located under your C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird to your /home/username/.thunderbird

Can you follow that one or you want a more detailed child steps?

HTH.

Yes, how did you save the messages? What method did you use?

yes, Child steps are good, as i 'm new here, though I don't think it's appropriate to be condescending to others, personally.

I did what you said and restarted UBUNTU then opened T-Bird and it still wanted me to enter my email address and password. I have not done this because I read a while ago (somewhere) that this may cause a headache. So I wait until I know what is going on and how to specifically, in detailed instructions understand how to import my mail account(s).

I believe it should show automatically when I open T-Bird, assuming I have everything correctly placed. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Your patience is appreciated, thanks!

Hi Lucky Luke,
open a terminal then type: thunderbird -profilemanager
it will show you all the profiles installed, if you can't find yours, follow these steps:
- click on "Create Profile..."
- click Next
- Find a name then click "Choose folder"
- Select the folder where is located your profile
- Click Finish.

What files have you backed up?