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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Waters wrote: > Julian Hall wrote: >> Sorry I should have said this is Windows. The reason I asked the >> filename is that I *did* back up the entire Profile folder and it still >> didn't backup the address book. I'm assuming the same filename is >> common to Linux and Windows. > > Well mine is called "abook.mab". > > Probably Documents and Settings, Application data, somewhere. > > I wouldn't assume it is the same on Windows; and the implementation is > fantastically involved as only Mozilla know how. Sorry for taking so long, I've been vary busy at work. Under Linux you'd typically look in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini or ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini to find the profile location. Whereas with Windows XP, 2000 & 2003 (and possibly 98/ME) the equivalent file is $PROFILE\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles.ini On a standalone machine this defaults to C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles.ini (Vista radically changes the user profile locations and structures.) Another issue is that whilst the profiles.ini file contains a path to the profile relative to directory containing the profiles.ini file the file prefs.js within the profile contains absolute path references to certain files within that profile. The upshot of which is that you can't move a Thunderbird profile. (which includes sharing one between Windows and Linux, since Windows app expects to see something like "C:\\Documents and Settings\\<USER>\\Application Data\\Thunderbird\\..." whereas the Linux app expects something like "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/...". Whilst Firefox has a similar profile mechanism there don't appear to be such self references. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJMWbJsoRLMhsZpFcRAt/0AJ45MVPdvAyP4jJ28MtFZwhYGU5VgwCeLbOV OXzkTtHBYT7+U3nYweS8hfY= =G7Y7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html