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[Peter R Green]

Good suggestion -- I'll try it. Thanks.

I was beginning to think that it was time to upgrade, probably after The 
Big Trip next month. But I had hoped to have a laptop to sell on e-bay 
rather than a collection of retrieved parts. Anyway, I now have a nice 
new Toshiba with a bigger hard disk than I've ever had in a desktop 
machine, so I'm not unhappy in that respect. My only complaint is that 
the numeric overlay keys are almost illegibly marked -- small blue 
characters on the edges of the dark grey keys. You need a torch and 
magnifying glass.

We'll be passing through Zürich on 17 April, but as part of a tour, so 
unfortunately I doubt that we will get an opportunity to seek you out on 
Sumatrastrasse, but if I see any signs about open software, I'll wave in 
their general direction, just in case.

Cheers,

Peter


Shane M. Coughlan wrote:
> Peter R Green wrote:
>   
>> There was even someone in the next suburb to me, whose name I forget. 
>> Unfortunately my last laptop suffered a Diet Coke-related mishap (my 
>> wife caught her foot in the cable when turning to walk away after 
>> handing me a drink) and I have not been able yet to persuade Thunderbird 
>> to vomit up several years' worth of e-mails and addresses copied across 
>> from the rescued hard drive. Would that someone would create a simple 
>> merge utility! It always seems to me to be a lot easier to nuke one and 
>> replace it with the other than to pull what already existed into what 
>> has now been created.
>>     
>
> Sorry about your laptop problem.  My suggestion is to take the old
> profile and load it in a mail client you don't use as your primary one
> (perhaps you could download a copy of Mobility Email or something) and
> then copy all of the emails and folders into a single folder called
> 'oldmails'.  In your normal desktop email client create a folder called
> 'oldmails' as well.
>
> Now, just copy *that* folder from the temporary email client into the
> normal desktop client profile, restart, and you should have all the old
> emails.
>
> Shane
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