11280 - [feature] unix profile migration

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Migration, defect, P3)

Description

[Cathleen]

Place holder for getting a profile migration tool for unix.

Are we doing shell script still?

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

adding myself, briano, and alecf to the cc list.

Comment 2

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instead of doing a shell script, it makes more sense to me that we would get
./apprunner -installer work for UNIX.

when running apprunner -installer for the first time, the user would see one
unmigrated profile.  the profile name would be $USER, and the 4.x profile root
would be $HOME/.netscape

I'm working on a doc to explain what needs to get migrated where.

I'm going to find dbragg and run it by him.

This feature makes like a great [HELP WANTED] bug.

Comments?

Comment 3

[dbragg]

I was just thinking about this yesterday while waiting for the tree to clear.
The original plan was to have a 5.x profile "tree" that looks like the 4.x tree,
thus the use of a script for UNIX.  Now that there have been significant changes
to the way mail works this may not be possible.  I'll need to see that doc you
mentioned, Seth.

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

re-assigning to me.

./apprunner -installer now work (and does the right thing) on Linux.

to test it, try this:

use 4.x on your Linux box.
rm ~/.mozilla
./mozilla-apprunner.sh -installer	(or ./apprunner installer, how ever you run
5.0)

exactly one profile will show up, which matches $USER
for its profile directory, I use $HOME/.netscape

in the page that -installer brings up, select the $USER account and hit start.
it will copy all your old mail, copy and rename your prefs file, copy
~/.netscape to ~/.mozilla/$USER and start up 5.0

there are a few minor things left to do.  I'll log those bugs now.

but over all, it works like a charm.

while getting -installer to work on UNIX, I've done a lot of code clean up.
I'll send mail to the right people explaining what I did.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

marking fixed, since it works on UNIX now.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

Seth,

This works - like a charm - for IMAP mail.  I set up a second profile on 4.x as
POP and only 'some' of my mail folders are listed in 5.0 mail----the ones
without any messages.  If I check the directory where the mail files are stored,
only those folders with 0 contents have both a file with no extension and a file
with  a .msf extension; the files with contents have no extensions.  Strangely
enough, these folders   have 2 and 13 messages, respectively, where my IMAP mail
that migrated was much larger.
Grace

Comment 7

[Grace Bush]

build 199909108-able to migrate Unix profile

Comment 8

[Grace Bush]

should be build 1999091608

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/3ae746898946
[fenix] For https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/11280 - Adds FxA Signed Up Leanplum Event