[Linux] Journal.

To share emails and calendar in Thunderbird we need to move the data to a shared vfat partition that can be accessed by both linux and windows. We then copy over prefs.js and modify it under both OS to point to the shared data location.

Here we take the mail data from linux. If you want to share the mail from windows just copy the data from the repective windows locations instead of linux.

$ cp -r ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default.uty /mnt/shared/mail/thunderbird
$ cp ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default.uty/prefs.js" "/mnt/ntfs/Documents and Settings/ach/My Documents/.mozilla-thunderbird/default.uty/prefs.js"

In both prefs.js under both linux and windows replace all the xxx/default.uty/... with /mnt/shared/mail/thunderbird/... in linux and S:\mail\thunderbird\... in windows. Then delete any lines with [ProfD], this will be auto filled in.

We also needed to do the same in Calendar/CalendarManager.rdf to share Calendar data.

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