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On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 17:08 +0100, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > At the moment all my RSS feeds for Thunderbird are on my main HD in the > Windows installation. So far I've migrated everything else over to my > new Mint 15 install, but I can't find how to move where Thunderbird > looks for the RSS feeds. > > To explain the current setup. Local Folders and all my mail accounts > point to a separate partition from the default Windows installation, on > the basis that if Windows gets hosed I won't lose any email, settings, > filters etc - as I have a lot of separate accounts and dozens of filters > setting them all up again would be a real pain. So, Windows is on drive > C, and my mail is on E. Same physical disk but different partitions. > Paths to mailboxes point to E:\.. etc. However RSS Feeds point to > C:\Users\Julian etc and I cannot work out how to point it elsewhere; you > can't just select it in Thunderbird and type in the alternative, and > there doesn't seem (according to a lot of Googling) a setting to do it, > so I'm down to trying to work out which config file to alter. The main > feed is called BBC News, so I searched for that term in the profile > folder and all I came up with is prefs.js. I did find the path > mentioned in that file so I amended it to my preferred location but that > hasn't made any difference. > > Incidentally, the /reason/ I want to move it is so I can share RSS Feeds > between Windows and Mint while I am migrating to Mint. > > Any ideas gratefully received. does this help http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_a_profile_between_Windows_and_Linux if not I would rename the local thunderbird folder in Linux and the start it up again and see if you can point everything to come from your "E:" drive /media/"Edrive"/thunderbird... The article suggests RSS feeds are in the Mail folder with indexing in the cookies.txt file. So a new local Mail account Mail folder should work? -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq