248047 - Profile Migration from the Mozilla Suite

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Scott MacGregor]

Tracking bug for profile migration.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: snapshot of work in progress

Still lots more to do.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: screen shot

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: screen shot

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: updated patch

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: screen shot showing progress infromation

I've made the file copying asynch so the UI doesn't freeze. I've also added a
progress dialog to the import dialog...

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: moving progressmeter to the bottom

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the correct screen shot

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: updated patch to show progress and do asynch file I/O

This presumes http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=151492 has already
been checked in (which it has on the branch)

Comment 9

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

+nsSeamonkeyProfileMigrator::Notify(nsITimer *timer)
+{
+  CopyNextFolder();

hmm. maybe using
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/base/public/nsIAsyncStreamCopier.idl
would be a better idea? (you'd have to open input/outputstreams for the file
then, though... hm...)

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

I'm not sure what that would buy me Christian. Except for finer granularity on
the file I/O. Right now coming up for air between each Operating System
controlled file copy seems to be working well and keeping things responsive. I
suppose if that approach ends up having problems I could try to have more
control, letting Thunderbird be the one to copy each file instead of the OS. But
I'd rather not. 

Comment 11

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

well, what if mail files are really large? the ui might hang for a few seconds.

anyway, your choice...

Comment 12

[Hiro]

A Migration wizard is displayed even when mail is not being set up by mozilla1.7.
This becomes the procedure in which it is somewhat confusing and is excessive
for the first setup procedure.

I think it good that a Migration wizard is displayed, only when the profile of
Mozilla mail exists.

Mac OS X 10.3.4
branch build of version 0.7+ (20040702)

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

checked into the branch. We'll file bugs with the migrator separately. 

Comment 14

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 254025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 215306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Patrick]

I am puzzled. I tried to find this import option in the latest trunk and latest
0.8 nighlies but could not find anything corresponding to what appears here. Did
I take a wrong version? Isn't it available yet? Is it a Windows only fix (I am
using Linux)?

Comment 17

[Patrick]

In case this is useful for someone else:
- this exists in the 0.8 latest nighlies
- this does work with Linux
- you need to have a fresh install (existing profile might keep the profile
migration tool from popping up)
- this tool appears at start-up but no link from entry is present in the GUI's
menus (could be a topic for a new RFE bug).

Comment 18

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Scott, you marked bug 215306 a dupe of this but it seems to me that 215306 was
requesting Import of Mozilla mail and not Migration. We have Migration, but it
doesn't appear there's any way to Import Mozilla mail after you've missed your
one shot at Migration. Do we have a bug for adding Mozilla to the list for Tools
-> Import? Can I reopen bug 215306 to track that?

Comment 19

[jrblier]

I'm at a loss. It's marked fixed but I still don't see any easy way to import or
migrate Seamonkey (Moz App Suit) towards Thunderbird! I have Thunderbird 0.9
installed.

Is there something the end-user have to do to RESET Thunderbird? Will
Thunderbird 1.0 (when shipped) ask to migrate mail from older version of
Thunderbird and from Seamonkey?

Could Thunderbird ship with a small extra application just to let someone
migrate all is data? Is this possible for Mac OS X?

- Jacques