[arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two. So,anyone knows? Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary. Regards, Techlive Zheng
On 03/10/2012 09:10 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
So,anyone knows?
Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary.
Regards, Techlive Zheng
How about: cd ~/ mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.mozilla ln -s ~/.mozilla/thunderbird . gene
2012/3/11 Genes MailLists <lists@sapience.com>:
On 03/10/2012 09:10 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
So,anyone knows?
Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary.
Regards, Techlive Zheng
How about:
cd ~/ mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.mozilla ln -s ~/.mozilla/thunderbird .
gene
Symlink is okay, but not truely slove the problem, I am looking at the code now.
On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
So,anyone knows?
Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary.
Regards, Techlive Zheng Use
thunderbird --profilemanager Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the new one ;)
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Axilleas Pi <axilleaspi@ymail.com> wrote:
On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
So,anyone knows?
Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary.
Regards, Techlive Zheng
Use
thunderbird --profilemanager Yes, thunderbird -P, you can even make a desktop file for it, something like (it's my Aurora): [Desktop Entry] Name=Aurora GenericName=Web Browser Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u Icon=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png Terminal=false Type=Application MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; StartupNotify=true Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the new one ;)
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:12 AM, 甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm.gan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Axilleas Pi <axilleaspi@ymail.com> wrote:
On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
So,anyone knows?
Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary.
Regards, Techlive Zheng
Use
thunderbird --profilemanager Yes, thunderbird -P, you can even make a desktop file for it, something like (it's my Aurora): [Desktop Entry] Name=Aurora GenericName=Web Browser Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u Icon=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png Terminal=false Type=Application MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; StartupNotify=true Categories=Network;WebBrowser; Sorry, it should be "Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u -P test"
Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the new one ;)
Am 11.03.2012 03:10, schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng):
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
So,anyone knows?
Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary.
Regards, Techlive Zheng
its just too easy, you can configure it in profile settings. in server settings you can choose the local folder. thats what you need?
2012/3/13 G. Schlisio <g.schlisio@gmx.de>:
Am 11.03.2012 03:10, schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng):
Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
So,anyone knows?
Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird, that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole thunderbird if necessary.
Regards, Techlive Zheng
its just too easy, you can configure it in profile settings. in server settings you can choose the local folder. thats what you need?
Thanks to all of you, I have solved this problem. As I mentioned before, I am not mean to change the profile location, eg ~/.thunderbird/*.defulat to elsewhere, I want to change ~/.thunderbird itsself to ~/.mozilla/thunderbird which profile manager can not help. Finally, thanks to lee@mozillazine, I found how to change that by altering the source code. --- mail/app/application.ini 2012-03-13 23:58:49.204534467 +0800 10.0.2 +++ mail/app/application.ini 2012-03-13 23:26:47.991609239 +0800 @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ #filter substitution [App] +Vendor=Mozilla Name=Thunderbird Version=@APP_VERSION@ BuildID=@GRE_BUILDID@ Here are the links of upstream bugreports: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247973> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424641>
participants (6)
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Axilleas Pi
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Conner Lee
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G. Schlisio
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Genes MailLists
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甘露(Gan Lu)
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郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)