Comments on: How I Moved my Firefox and Thunderbird Settings from Windows to Mac OS X http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2006/08/28/how-i-moved-my-firefox-and-thunderbird-settings-from-windows-to-mac-os-x/ Aikido, comics, eating well, information security, open source, mountain biking, and caffeine - this blog has everything! Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:57:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: peter http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2006/08/28/how-i-moved-my-firefox-and-thunderbird-settings-from-windows-to-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-10 peter Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:07:29 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=29#comment-10 I did a little digging and found a page at http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile which indicates that you can specify the location of your profile in your <strong>profiles.ini</strong> file. I have not tried this, but it would seem to indicate that you can indeed specify a network drive to store your profile directory. I will have to try this. If you are running a shared drive service somewhere on the Internet, or on a LAN, it looks quite possible to specify a single profile directory for multiple PCs. <strong>NOTE</strong>: I do not know how Firefox or Thunderbird will react to having multiple, simultaneous copies accessing the same profile at the same time, and it is distinctly possible that this could cause problems, so you may want to test things out with a testing profile before modifying your main profile. At the very least, make backups first! I did a little digging and found a page at http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile which indicates that you can specify the location of your profile in your profiles.ini file. I have not tried this, but it would seem to indicate that you can indeed specify a network drive to store your profile directory. I will have to try this.

If you are running a shared drive service somewhere on the Internet, or on a LAN, it looks quite possible to specify a single profile directory for multiple PCs.

NOTE: I do not know how Firefox or Thunderbird will react to having multiple, simultaneous copies accessing the same profile at the same time, and it is distinctly possible that this could cause problems, so you may want to test things out with a testing profile before modifying your main profile. At the very least, make backups first!

]]> By: rolandthomas http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2006/08/28/how-i-moved-my-firefox-and-thunderbird-settings-from-windows-to-mac-os-x/comment-page-1/#comment-9 rolandthomas Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:56:13 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=29#comment-9 Hi Peter, Great tip -- I also discovered this trick independently a couple days ago and posted it on comp.sys.mac.apps group on Google: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/browse_thread/thread/c7a80afce778930a?hl=en Now, tonight, I'm searching again for (what I think is) the next logical step: to share the same single Thunderbird profile on both my Dell desktop and Macbook. Copying the contents of my profile directory back and forth between Windows and OS X is far too time-consuming and prone to error. I'm thinking the only way is to put the profile up on a shared online drive (password protected, encrypted and using secure authentication, of course. Do you have any ideas? I'm also going to post the question on the MozillaZine forums. Regards, Roland Thomas Hi Peter,

Great tip — I also discovered this trick independently a couple days ago and posted it on comp.sys.mac.apps group on Google:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/browse_thread/thread/c7a80afce778930a?hl=en

Now, tonight, I’m searching again for (what I think is) the next logical step: to share the same single Thunderbird profile on both my Dell desktop and Macbook.

Copying the contents of my profile directory back and forth between Windows and OS X is far too time-consuming and prone to error.

I’m thinking the only way is to put the profile up on a shared online drive (password protected, encrypted and using secure authentication, of course.

Do you have any ideas?

I’m also going to post the question on the MozillaZine forums.

Regards,
Roland Thomas

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