Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:22:57 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... Message-ID: <53EA6991.4070101@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140812185621.GA7166@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> <20140812185621.GA7166@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On 08/12/14 13:56, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:56:14AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> .... Well, I am down to the snorting post, the last task I need to >> complete before putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 box into service, replacing >> this one (AMD64X2 3800+, FC14 64-bit, terminally patched up several >> years ago). Unfortunately, it looks like a bit of a doozy. I need to get >> the Mail directory from the old machine to the new one. To start with, I >> just copied the whole thing. 35 min. later when it was done, I invoked >> T-bird on the FreeBSD box & none of the Mail-directory was visible :-/. >> That method worked AOK the last time I used it, 10+ years ago when I put >> the old box into service :-). That was also the last time I tried, last >> time I needed to do that. Is what I am doing supposed to work ? If not, >> how am I supposed to do this ? Mind you, there are yearly archives going >> back into the '90's, which I want preserved. The whole Mail directory is >> ~20 GiB :-/ .... thunderbird.x86_64 17.0.7-1.fc14.remi on the Fedora >> box, thunderbird 31 on the FreeBSD (box std,) .... TIA for any pointers .... > Check the permissions and ownership on the folders and files. Even if your > username and group name are the same, the *numerical* UID and GID might be > different. > > Is thunderbird configured the same on both machines. > > > Roland numerical UIDs & GIDs are identical. Both T-birds identical as near as I can tell, a bit touch going back & forth w/ 2 machines :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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