Thunderbird Local Folders in Non-Standard Locations

Q:

How are local folders migrated? What happens during migration to local folders that are not in default locations?

A:

Local folders in the default location will migrate automatically. Local folders stored elsewhere will have to be done manually.

When local folders are in the default location:

When the Addressbook Magic script runs, it looks for local folders in the default location, which is:

C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows user name>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>

Addressbook Magic creates a .pst and places it in the default location for Outlook:

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

When local folders are in a non-standard location:

If clients have moved their local folders elsewhere (P: drives, for example), Addressbook Magic will not be able to find them automatically, so they will not not be migrated by the script.

Local folders can be migrated manually in the following way:

• Go to \\titan\uit-e2010scripts$\addrload\ and copy that directly locally.
  • For this example c:\abm works, but if it is a restricted user you'll have to dump it somewhere in the %appdata%\ directory.

start > run > cmd
cd\
cd c:
cd abm

addrload -mv -o "MessageStore=Archive Mail" tb:p:\localmail\Mozilla\Profiles\default\c5uhk3p2.slt\Mail pst:localmail.pst

• The above will perform local mail in a custom location

addrload -av tb:p:\localmail\Mozilla\Profiles\default\c5uhk3p2.slt\Mail pst:localcontacts.pst

• The above will perform local contacts in a custom location

Related Information

For more information or other Addressbook Magic variances, the Enterprise Edition manual can be found here:

\\titan\uit-e2010scripts$\AddrLoad\Enterprise Edition Manual.doc\

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