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I'm very new to this. I've trawled the forums to try to find out how to set up Thunderbird in Ubuntu and transfer my existing profile from Windows but I can't work it out. Please help.

Step-by-step instructions like you're talking to the impaired (because you are) would be most appreciated.

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I think the easiest way to answer this is to point you to the knowledge base article from Mozilla on moving your profile from one computer to another.

Moving your Thunderbird profile folder

It gives you the steps to follow as well as a link for moving from windows to linux that you should read through as well.

Before attempting any move I would back up your Thunderbird profile from Windows as well.

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Also look at: kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird – david6 Dec 4 '11 at 5:58
    
Hey, thanks Mark. I stuffed around for a bit and came up with a bit of a "work-around" sort of resolution to what I needed. It's a bit embarrassing to say but I was really just chasing the addresses so, what I did was, while I was in windows I selected all the addresses in the address book and copied them into the text area of an email. I sent that email to my web based email address. I then switched over to Ubuntu and received that email in Thunderbird and Thunderbird collected the addresses. Haha. It worked... – Brad Dec 4 '11 at 9:58

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