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November 4th, 2009, 10:45 am

Post Posted November 4th, 2009, 10:45 am

I run a domain network and thus all user profiles are kept on the server. Because one user keeps a very very large Thunderbird folder, his domain logons and logoffs take a very long time. I want to move his Thunderbird Profile to a different drive on the network so that it will not have to load the entire thing when he logs on. At the same time I want to give him a new profile name, rather than using the default profile.

Naturally I want him to keep all of his extensive address book and mail folder structures.

I propose to start a new profile for him on the S:\ drive (a network mapped location unique to each user but is not part of the network/pc profile.) Obviously I will have to move and rename his current profile. Are there any steps or precautions that I should take to make this move. This user is already mad at me because his hard drive died.

Oh well, such is the life of a network administrator.

Elias

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November 4th, 2009, 2:08 pm

Post Posted November 4th, 2009, 2:08 pm

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder once the knowledge base web site is back up.

Moving the profile to a different location has no effect on what gets loaded. The best way to make Thunderbird start quickly is to minimize the amount of messages you store in the inbox - move any you want to permanently keep to other folders / child folders and then compact the folder. If he insists on keeping lots of messages in his inbox (and hasn't learned his lesson due to the folder getting corrupted) perhaps you could shift him to a IMAP account if you have a IMAP server. Thunderbird only downloads the headers for a remote folder by default.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keep_it_working_Thunderbird

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November 4th, 2009, 4:30 pm

Post Posted November 4th, 2009, 4:30 pm

Yeah, I wasn't really worried about how long it takes Thunderbird to load (though *he* complains about that. All *I* really wanted was to have his network login and especially logoff run more quickly. I guess I'll move him to the C:\ drive and let him worry about the backups.

Thanks, Elias

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