Re: [tlug] Linux-101

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Greg Thomson wrote:

>> [LHS] Select a CDDB entry:
>> Gunkl, Grundsatzliche Betrachtungen, Alt.Rock
>> Gunkl, Grundsatzliche Betrachtungen, Cabaret
>>  Does anyone know what that... German(?) means?
>
>
> Sorry I can't help with the German but I can tell you where to look 
> for  Mozilla's mail folder.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.0-release-notes.html#profilefolder 
>
>
> Like lots of user specific settings and application data it's in a 
> hidden  directory in the users home directory. In your case it might 
> be  /home/lyle/.thunderbird for example.
> Any file or directory that has a period as the first character in the 
> name  becomes hidden
> You can make all the hidden files and directories visible in Konqueror 
> by  selecting "Show Hidden Files" from the "View" menu. There are 
> dozens of  them. At least one for every application you use and some. 
> Hope this is  helpful.


Yes!  That was very helpful!  Way back when I had stumbled upon the
"Show Hidden Files" option, but then I'd turned it back off and
forgotten about it.  That tip enabled me to find the long-elusive files
I'd been searching for!  Now if Mozilla behaves in basically the same
way as Netscape 4.77, I should be able to easily copy select files over
to another computer.  That single issue more than anything else has
prevented me from doing a clean install on that machine, but now that
that issue seems to be sorted out, next time around I think I'll wipe
the slate clean.

Thanks again!

Lyle