October 29, 2007

Moving Thunderbird Profile

Adapted from Thunderbird How To Manage Profiles Your Thunderbird profile not only contains all your preferences and extensions but your e-mail folders and messages as well. Moving your profile is not that difficult. One thing to keep in mind though is your Thunderbird profile can get quite large depending on the size of the e-mail messages you have saved so you will need to copy it to a CD/DVD or Flash Drive. Step 1: Locate Your Profile Folder:   On Windows 7, click the Windows Start button and type %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\ in the Search box at the bottom of the Start…

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Weekly Update 2007-10-29

Note: Due to Day Light Savings time ending next Sunday and my work schedule, I will not be able to get the meeting notes posted until the following Tuesday. Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.8/Fx 2.0.0.9 : Fx 2.0.0.9 Firedrill Release Code Freeze: Release Candidate 1: Friday – October 26th Beta Users Release: Monday – October 29th Target Ship Date: Thursday – November 1st TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird 2.0.0.8 – TB2.0.0.8 on hold until this afternoon’s meeting about possible FF 2.0.0.9 firedrill TBird 3 – No Report Calendar Project – 0.7 version of Lightning…

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Firefox 2.0.0.9 Coming

On Friday – October 26th, there was a Fx 2.0.0.9 Test Day which means the final release of Fx 2.0.0.9 should be coming out some time this week. I have seen unconfirmed reports that this release date is going to be this Thursday – November 1st. Should have more info soon from the Mozilla Weekly Update meeting. Update:  Beta users release will be coming later today.

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Moving TBird Profile

Your TBird profile not only contains all your preferences and extensions but your e-mail folders and messages as well. Moving your profile is not that difficult. One thing to keep in mind though is your TBird profile can get quite large depending on the size of the e-mail messages you have saved so you will need to copy it to a CD/DVD or Flash Drive. Step 1: Locate Your Profile Folder: On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData%\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\ on Windows XP/2000 or…

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