[arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?

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郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)

11 Mar 2012 11 Mar '12

2:10 a.m.

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

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Genes MailLists

11 Mar 11 Mar

3:58 a.m.

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On 03/10/2012 09:10 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:

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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

郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)

4:10 a.m.

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2012/3/11 Genes MailLists :

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On 03/10/2012 09:10 PM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:

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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.

Conner Lee

4:17 a.m.

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Check this out. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_to_another_computer

Axilleas Pi

12 Mar 12 Mar

3:13 p.m.

New subject: [arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?

On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:

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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 ;)

甘露(Gan Lu)

4:12 p.m.

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Axilleas Pi wrote:

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On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:

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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;

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Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the new one ;)

甘露(Gan Lu)

4:13 p.m.

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:12 AM, 甘露(Gan Lu) wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Axilleas Pi wrote:

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On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:

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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"

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Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the new one ;)

G. Schlisio

13 Mar 13 Mar

9:26 a.m.

New subject: [arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?

Am 11.03.2012 03:10, schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng):

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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?

郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)

4:08 p.m.

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2012/3/13 G. Schlisio :

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Am 11.03.2012 03:10, schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng):

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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

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