288052 - Thunderbird cannot import THE RIGHT profiles from Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 124486

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

When you try and import Mozilla profiles into Thunderbird,  there is NO METHOD
OF SELECTING WHICH PROFILE you wish to import.  As of now,  Thunderbird picks
one (randomly???) and goes with it.  There needs to be a process to allow the
user to select WHICH PROFILE (*.slt) it is desired to import.  

In general,  there needs to be some signifiant thought given to profile
migration.  Mozilla Suite NEVER had the ability to migrate mozilla EASILY to
another (new) computer.  Mozilla seems to be the only mail client without this
ability.  Is this on purpose?


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Just try and pick THE mozilla profile to import to Thunderbird.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
You cannot do it.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

the migration wizard shows me an enumerated list of mozilla profiles. I pick the
one I want and click NEXT and it migrates that profile into a new Thunderbird
profile.

Comment 2

[Joe Mehaffey]

I have a half dozen profiles in documents and settings/application data/mozilla
in windows 2000 systems.  These do NOT show up in the display when I try to
import profiles.  I would be most appreciative if you could tell me how to make
them show up in the list.

Again:  There needs to be a way to POINT Thunderbird/Mozilla at the particular
*.slt file you want to import.  The "automatic" scheme fails to find profiles
except for the one that I seem to never be interested in.

Comment 3

[Joe Mehaffey]

Nevermind> My problem is solved.
A friend told me that "The Bat" mail client (
http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ )can import/export and backup/restore
all email and news messages from Mozilla and a list of other mail clients.  I
have tried it out and find it also has the (very desirable) ability to
SYNCHRONIZE all or selected mail folders between mail client installations on
multiple computers.  I have been trying it out all day and it works quite
similar to Mozilla Mail and has many more useful features than Thunderbird. 
While it costs $35 for a copy,  this is cheap compared to the grief I have had
just THIS time in moving Mozilla to a new computer.  Oh.. And it can be linked
to Mozilla Browsers so that it works as an integrated mail/browser system like
Mozilla Suite.

Comment 4

[Albert Feller]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124486 ***