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 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 -HTH Art@JAX