Comment 1483 for bug 1

Hopefully the unsupported and old hand-held might prove to be one hook for this
person. The clincher should (hopefully) be that their most recent emails are
now on Thunderbird in Ubuntu and no longer on Thunderbird in Windows.

I had to abandon the idea of sharing unless i create a special ntfs specifically
for sharing stuff between Windows and Ubuntu which would probably have been a
good idea from the start of the whole 'migration'. Automounting the main
Windows partition through fstab looks toooo dangerous. Of course i have
installed grsync (very nice gui btw) and the last command-line action was to
rsync the Ubuntu files to the Windows folder in

Docs&Settings/user/ApplicationData/Thunderbird/Profiles
to complete the job i think i should have also rsync'd it to
Docs&Settings/user/LocalData/ApplicationData/Thunderbird/Profiles
as well. <sarcastic>Obviously a much easier </sarcastic> pathname to reach than
Ubuntu's
/home/user/thunderbird (which is safely on a separate partition from the /
Something else Windows is unlikely to ever manage)

So all the person needs to do is press up arrow 1 time and then enter to back-up
and get Windows up-to-date. I guess that next time i pop round i could set that
up as a script but i haven't done any scripting before (not counting html, css &
wiki's). It will be easier for me to do the shared partition route i would
guess, at least for me.

When i first started posting in this thread, even a few months ago i would have
looked at this post in horror but learning is so easy with Ubuntu it is almost
impossible to notice one's own rapid growth.
Regards from
Tom :)