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Easy transfer driving me mad
31-03-2010 5:23 PM
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I have been trying all day to get the files and settings over to the new amchine, but without success.
The external drive appears on screen with afolder USMT2,UNC that xontains the .dat files.
At the bottom there is a box to enter a file name of an easy transfer file.
I enter a . dat file I:\USMT2.UNC\IMG00001.DAT and am told Windows Easy Transfer cannot open.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing or have done wrong, and what corrective action I must take, please?
Would acquiring an Easy Transfer Cable be a better method, perhaps?
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
31-03-2010 5:48 PM
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AFAIR, Easy Transfer creates one executable file of enormous proportions with everything in it. F&STW creates the USMT2 structure.
Unfortunately, ET is not compatible with the files created by F&STW
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=734917d8-0663-4c26-89d0-2d00b632ebdb&displa...
B.
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
01-04-2010 8:04 PM
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BTW under my Windows user name there are several files with names like OKa00740: I cannot fathom what they are. Can anyone give me a clue?
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01-04-2010 8:21 PM
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Cheers
Steven
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
01-04-2010 9:57 PM
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If you want to do it manually, copy the contents of the profiles folders from the old to the new - instructions here.
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
05-04-2010 6:30 PM
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Firstly I have done a complete un-install of TB from the new computer, and done another clean install, From advice of various sources my intention is to replace the files in the generated profile with those on the old computer. However I see that the profile folder... (same name) appears in two places
...app data\thunderbird\profiles\local\xxxxxx and ...app data\thunderbird\profiles\roaming\xxxxxx.
Into which one should I drop the files from the profile folder on the old machine? I am assuming that one will alter the other automatically, but not vice-versa.
I hope that this time, once the issue above has been solved, the address book will come across too, and also all the email accounts will be present inthe bew W7 computer. If they are not would pasting in the files form the old maxchine's
....apps data\thunderbird folder be likely to work?
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05-04-2010 10:29 PM
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05-04-2010 11:15 PM
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06-04-2010 7:07 AM
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08-04-2010 1:05 PM
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A slight caveat though. If you haven't yet run TB on the new machine, it won't have created a profile, so just copy the whole profile folder. If you have run TB it will have a profile already there, and if you just copy the old profile over it will still try to use the new one. Simple answer is to copy the contents of the old profile folder and paste them into the new one. Make sense?
Alternatively, you can install Mozbackup as an add-on into TB as well, on both old and new machines, and use that to export and then import the profile.
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
08-04-2010 7:44 PM
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Quote from: HPsauce Outlook is a doddle for transferring emails and contacts.
Outlook to a later version of Outlook is easy enough.
Outlook Express to Outlook 2007 or Windows Mail to Outlook 2007 can only be done if the account was the previous mail account on the same machine
Anything else to Outlook 2007 is impossible without the aid of some sort of intermediary.
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
09-04-2010 10:36 AM
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Transfers in TB are easy with Mozbackup.
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
09-04-2010 10:44 AM
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Sorry I have not been back sooner. You say as "an add-on to TB", but I've been unable to locate it as a specific item in tools, add-ons. Do you perhaps mean me to insert Mozbackup in to the TB application, or even something else?
Quote from: Denzil To actually answer the question, you just need to copy the profile into ...\Roaming\...
A slight caveat though. If you haven't yet run TB on the new machine, it won't have created a profile, so just copy the whole profile folder. If you have run TB it will have a profile already there, and if you just copy the old profile over it will still try to use the new one. Simple answer is to copy the contents of the old profile folder and paste them into the new one. Make sense?
Alternatively, you can install Mozbackup as an add-on into TB as well, on both old and new machines, and use that to export and then import the profile.
Contents of old profile folder: I'll try that once more. From what you wrote do I assume that TB will generate a profile from those contents?
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
09-04-2010 1:16 PM
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What I mean with the profiles is, if there is a profile folder there already then it will be using that folder name, so copy not the folder but all the things inside the folder, then paste all that into the existing profile folder on the new PC.
Example:
On your old PC you have
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\djclvczg.default
djclvczg is just an example - it will be a different random string of letters for you. That is the profile folder.
If you have run TB at all on the new PC you have
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\jhgrbnat.default
If you copy djclvczg.default into the Profiles folder on your new PC then TB won't see it as it will still be using jhgrbnat.default. Instead, double click on djclvczg.default to see the contents of the folder, and copy all of that.
Then paste it it into jhgrbnat.default, overwriting whatever is there at the moment. Start TB, and it will carry on using jhgrbnat.default, only now will be seeing your old bookmarks and mail. It doesn't need to generate a profile, because you are copying your old one into the shell of the new one.
Re: Easy transfer driving me mad
09-04-2010 1:46 PM
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Rather than overwriting contents of new Profiles Folder would there be anything against or otherwise deleting them and then pasting in the old Profiles Folder's contents?
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