HAVE BACKUPS, INSTALLED 15.1 FROM SCRATCH, NO KWALLET, HOW TO 'RESTORE' THUNDERBIRD DATA?

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My upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 crashed (long story, short version: remove USB backup disk before upgrade!), so I did not do an upgrade, but a complete backup of my ‘home’ directory (in 3X) before doing an install. My question is: How to restore all mail data in ‘Thunderbird 15.0’ into ‘Thunderbird 15.1’? Additional info: I have disabled ‘KWallet’ in 15.1 as well as in 15.0.

Best regards,
Jan Christian

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I assume that when you restore all of your backup of /home/<user>, it should be there.

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MISPLACED THREAD: MISPLACED AS ‘TUMBLEWEED’ ISSUE, DOING A REPOST

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And when you do a repost, then please refrain from using all caps. That is seen as shouting and most people do not like it when you shout at them.

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Absolutely no need. Moderators can change the tag. Like I did.

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Your Thunderbird emails are in .thunderbird/<unique_sequence>.default. If you have done a fresh install, Thunderbird may have given you a new <unique_sequence>.default into which you may have to copy the contents of the old <unique_sequence>.default in your backup.

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I’ve seen this happen in the past, one can also adjust this in ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini

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Sorry for using all caps. More intelligent: I should have simply said (in lowercase!) don’t reply, the mail is ill conceived. The idea was to shout at myself, not at others. Sorry!

Jan Christian