I switched to a new computer and wanted to migrate my Thunderbird mail folders from my old machine to the new. I had backed them up, so I worked from that.
I set up Thunderbird the created a folder named, case-sensitively, for the folders I want to transfer. Then I save a random e-mail to each of those folders, thus establishing them. Then I copied the local folders from my backup to C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\cpiwu0zp.default\Mail\Local Folders\; it overwrites the junk mail I’d put in the folders, and I’m all set.
Things is, my wife then showed me a bit of software which will do the same thing with a few points and clicks.
AND this is a 64-bit machine with 64-bit DOZE, and it wouldn’t run the Google Desktop I’d downloaded from their sit. It’s 32-bit only. Instead, I installed the IrFan viewer, a free photo viewer which is packaged with the option to also install Google Desktop. It installed it. (The GOM Media Player also gives you the option of installing Google Desktop with it.)
Windows Vista. There are a few extra things to click for security permissions, like something out of those MAC vs. PC commercials, but so far, Vista’s fine. Things are in different places than they were in XP, but it’s actually more sanely organized than was XP. And the same folks complaining about Vista are the ones who complained about XP as an “upgrade” to Win ‘98.
So that’s that.
July 7th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Mark,
Bought new high end Toshiba laptop and put vista ultimate one it so I could do video and log onto my work server. Server works but it won’t play video until it defrags for about three days. Not very convenient for simple transfer of video to a dvd.
All my other office stuff and new work computer I kept xp pro. Works with server 2003 and fast, plays video.
Problem with Microsoft is the brightest and best cashed out and went somewhere else leaving behind unfriendly, unhelpful people, who know they have you by the !!!!! and don’t care if you have to call back tomorrow or next week, because you will never get them again. Had tech support hang up on me for asking if they were Microsoft, why didn’t they have on Friday, the serial number disk I looked up and read to them on Thursday, didn’t they keep records of the calls?
I was calling from a different location and didn’t have the disk with me, figured they would have the disk information 12 hours later. They had never even heard of me.
It took them until now to even consider user friendly applications. Until this version of office you needed a special course if you were to navigate the programs. Outlook 2007 which I live by daily, work 3 days a week at best. Last upgrade I downloaded shut it off for 2 weeks and I eventually had to reinstall Outlook again which takes about 4 hours on a server. Because the repair feature on the program wouldn’t work.
That is why I have 3 or 4 email addresses. 1 usually works.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:12 am
My needs are probably not as complex as yours, and I have never dealt with MS tech support. One of the first things I did when I got this machine running on Saturday afternoon was to install Firefox and Thunderbird for my browsing and my mail.
One thing I didn’t like was the more-cumbersome way of restarting the machine, but I downloaded a sidebar gadget which makes it as easy as it was with XP.
I’ve not really given this thing a workout yet. I enjoy the multi-tasking capabilities, though.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yea most of our day centers around getting someone from point A to point B. Software and fast Internet a must, plus we use text messaging and emails to communicate with the techs. When it works, I can send an address and phone number in like 20 seconds from my smart phone or computer. Try to use as little paper as possible. Save everything to a digital file. 10 years ago I didn’t know what a Gigabyte was. Eventually they will get all the bugs out of Vista, and it will be just like xp which had similar problems when it came out. New toys rock, and so do you Mark. Have fun on your exploration.