On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Art Wildman wrote: > Jon Peatfield wrote: >> At least on SL308 the thunderbird 1.5.0.12 would offer to convert/import >> a mozilla/netscape profile if the user didn't have any profiles when it >> was first run. >> >> On SL50 (i386 tested so far), it no longer seems to do that. Instead it >> seems to make a default profile and then start the add account wizard. >> >> For people converting from netscape/mozilla/seamonkey mail this is rather >> more effort for them so I'm puzzled why this would have changed (especially >> when it is the same version of thunderbird). >> >> Of course it may just be that we have managed to break our thunderbird >> setup to make this fail (I can't see any reason why it would be disabled >> by default). >> >> Does it work for anyone else in SL50? > > Transferring data to a new profile - MozillaZine Knowledge Base > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profile Checked those options already, and no they don't seem to work for us on SL50 (I've now checked on both i386 and x86_64 versions). http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrate_from_Mozilla_Suite_or_Netscape_to_Thunderbird suggests using: thunderbird -createProfile <Profile Name> thunderbird -P <Profile Name> -migration which works fine with thunderbird on SL3x but not on SL50 where I just get an error for the -migration: $ thunderbird -createProfile test4 Success: created profile 'test4' $ thunderbird -P test4 -migration Warning: unrecognized command line flag -migration Indeed it appears that (on SL3) just specifying -migration offers to convert into the default profile, though if I cancel the migration wizard then I also see the 'Warning: unrecognized command line flag -migration' error... > There may be some -profilemanager, -profile or other command line > arguments that could help you... > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager On SL50 thunderbird seems to ignore that a user has a mozilla/seamonkey profile it could transfer and just starts them off with a blank profile and then runs the 'new account wizard' I'm wondering if this is just an oddity of our setup here - did we break thunderbird's migration feature somehow which is why I wondered if it works for *anyone* out there... Or maybe for this to work thunderbird uses/needs a piece of the mozilla/seamonkey code. Of course once all the users have converted from mozilla/seamonkey to thunderbird it won't really be a bit deal and we can currently advise people to do the profile-conversion by ssh'ing to an SL3 machine and running thunderbird -migration there... -- Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/