{"id":55,"date":"2007-05-21T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T12:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/move-it-and-dont-lose-it\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T07:34:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T12:34:28","slug":"move-it-and-dont-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/05\/move-it-and-dont-lose-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Move it and Don’t Lose it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason I am writing is because of Firefox<\/a> & Thunderbird<\/a> from Mozilla<\/a>. Two weeks ago, I got a great deal on a 17″ iMac; a friend told me I “stole it”. However, I did pay for it. After my wife saw it, she asked when we were going to get rid of the Windows machine. Side Note: I have to admit that I am really happy with it.<\/p>\n

I am going to try to explain why I love these programs so much. Reason #1 – FREE!; reason #2 – easy to use; reason #3 – the profile is easy to pack-up and move to another computer. I mean ANY computer, if you can install Thunderbird or Firefox on it, you can pack up your eMail Profile.<\/p>\n

The reason this is important is because you can back-up, zip, and copy the entire profile. I have been doing this via SyncBack<\/a>, which is a great free program from 2 Bright Spots. If you open Windows explorer and drill down into your personal Documents folder [you need to turn on “Show Hidden Files”] and into the Applications folder. You need to find the program folder & then your profile. From there you can manipulate the contents.<\/p>\n

I have now moved my personal eMail and Firefox profile from Windows, to Linux, back to Windows and now to a Mac. I have not lost a single eMail and all of my bookmarks & other information moved without problems. I did have to re-install my Add-ons<\/a>, but since they were still listed in the add-on list, it was pretty easy [I did however make a list of them just in case].<\/p>\n

My wife, yeah, no problems for her either. The biggest problem that we have run into is that [the] Shockwave [player] has not been updated for OS X, which my son doesn’t even realize. He just doesn’t go to his websites that much [hey he is only 16 mos].<\/p>\n

So my hat goes off to the Mozilla team for pulling off such a fantastic feat of programming!!! Woot! Woot!<\/p>\n

iron wil<\/p>\n

P.S. Quicken<\/a> for Mac<\/a> 2006 was pretty easy, however we lost functionality with one of our banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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