I am slowly moving to Leap 42.1. I want to copy all necessary Thunderbird files from my 13.2 home directory. Normally I just copy the entire .thunderbird directory but over the years of version changes this has accumulated a lot of junk. What should I be copying?
I am not right now on my home machine, but if I remember correctly you just need to copy profile directory. Profile directory is defined in file ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
Then on new installation you need to change the profiles.ini so that it matches name of your copied profile directory. Hope this helps.
Yes, but copying the xxxxxx.default directory as defined in profiles.ini results in all the junk files also being copied as they are under xxxxxx.default.
I’m sorry! I was unclear in my original post. I used the word “junk” instead of “old, useless, no longer needed files created internally by various versions of Thunderbird over a number of years.” Files that are NOT E-mails. Databases I assume are no longer used.