Re: [WinMac] Moving Win Netscape or Mozilla to Linux.

From: Brian Durant (durant[at]cbn.net.id)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 22:47:24 EST

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    Many thanks to you and Tom for you replies. While I will have to try
    what you suggest with regards to the profiles, I have found
     instructions for sharing mail folders between Win and Lin at the
    following URL, should there be anyone else on the list that is interested:

    http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/share_mailboxes.html#AEN2428

    All the best,

    Brian

    Bruce Johnson wrote:

    > Brian Durant wrote:
    >
    >> I have just installed an extra hard drive and now have a Win2k/SuSE
    >> 8.1 dual boot box. Does anyone on the list know how to move Netscape
    >> prefs (e-mail accounts, profile etc.) and mail (I have already moved
    >> my address book) from Win2k to Linux, so that I can use Mozilla with
    >> all of my info intact? I imagine that the process would be similar to
    >> moving from a Win to an OS X system?
    >
    >
    > So long as the original drive is mounted, use the import functions
    > within Mozilla. Your prefs and such are likely in C:\documents and
    > settings\<username>\Application Data\ on the Win2K side, if it's aa
    > recent version of netscape (if it's a very recent version of Netscape
    > (6.0 or better) it'll have a directory name like
    > C:\documents and settings\<username>\Application Data\Netscape <or
    > possibly Mozilla> \Profiles\Default USer\z02uzdg9.slt\ which will
    > contain all you files, which you can just transfer driectly into the
    > corresponding folder for your Linux user.
    >
    > I don't know if it'll work, but if you're using mozilla on both sides,
    > you may be able to use the *same* profiles.
    >
    >

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