The most important thing to me in office are my emails, I need to keep years of records. So while shifting to another Linux machine has never been a problem to me, I encountered it when I decided to shift to an Mac for my main machine in the office.<\/p>\n
My original plan was to copy the .thunderbird file from my old hard-disk to the mac as I have been doing over the years. However, I was totally taken aback when realized that there was no apparent way to view hidden files in the Finder. <\/p>\n
A quick search on google gave me a fast solution: a small shell command to execute\u00a0 “defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES” <\/em><\/strong> Restarted Finder (hold down Option key, click and hold on Finder icon in the Dock- contextual menu appears, select Relaunch) – that was easy!!<\/p>\n Time to locate the .thunderbird on mac and replace it with the one I had. Looked at all the places, nope, no .thunderbird file on the mac system .\u00a0 Taking a chance I crossed my fingers and did the following:<\/p>\n 1) Open Thunderbird, create a profile.<\/p>\n 2) Quit Thunderbird<\/p>\n 3) This created a folder under Library->Thunderbird->Profiles. The Profiles folder had a .default folder.<\/p>\n 4) I renamed the .default folder to .default.original<\/p>\n 5) Copied the .default folder from my old .thunderbird under Library->Thunderbird->Profiles<\/p>\n 6) Renamed the copied.default with the name of the original<\/p>\n 7) Started Thunderbird<\/p>\n And Voila!! it worked. I had all my old emails, folders, filters… everything working as it was on my linux machine.<\/p>\n I later went back to\u00a0 Library->Thunderbird->Profiles and deleted the .default.original folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"