Message storage for Local Folders and accounts
TB guidance is to maintain separate profiles for dual-booting (Kubuntu and Win11), rather than sharing the profile. That adds to IMAP churn, but also to disk space, of course. But the biggest concern is keeping Local Folders (a very large archive which is by far the largest part of my profile) coordinated: both sides must access the same Local Folders.
The option to specify "Message Storage" for Local Folders obviously addresses that problem: both Kubuntu and Win11 can have the same NTFS Local Folders storage. At the same time, each IMAP account also has the option to specify its own "Message Storage" "Local Directory" location outside of the profile folder. That suggests two obvious questions:
- Why not specify shared storage for each account, as well as for Local Folders?
- After Local Folders and all accounts are shared, then precisely what, from each profile, cannot be shared between Kubuntu and Windows? Does this bring us back to asking why the profile cannot simply be shared?
[Years ago, when my email accounts were POP, I had no problem sharing a profile between WinXP and an earlier Ubuntu variant. (Of course with POP, they had to share.) Is today's separate-profiles guidance related to IMAP accounts or to some other change in TB design?]
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The "guidance" is around the simpler things.
Thunderbird contains many "hard coded" locations and the path separators are not always correctly parsed if the profile is shared, nor are drive letters. Linus complicates this because they essentially refuse to standardize anything. User choice is supreme. So anything can appear in locations depending on "user choice" mostly this works on Linux. Not so much Windows.
Thanks, Matt. I had to think about your answer for a while, because I'm not quite sure I follow - or, if I follow correctly, that I agree. (I have not had a problem with Linux and Windows agreeing on the location of a folder, even if they have different ways to identify the drive, but then I'm not sure that's what you meant.)
However, in the absence of any other answers or advice, I will continue incrementally consolidating my mail sharing, starting with the Local Folders (which take 90% of the profile space). If there are no hiccups after a couple weeks, I will begin sharing the IMAP accounts folders, starting with the least important and gradually incorporating my most critical accounts. Then, if all that works, I will try the complete profile.
That will probably take a couple months to transition, because I must proceed carefully and watch each step for a few days. [Note: While all this is happening, I'm also having completely unrelated sporadic mail-fetch problems (on the Windows side only, I think), in which one or more messages are mangled and have to be retrieved. ("Sporadic" means the incidence may range from 0 to a dozen emails in a day - when it happens, it's usually more than one. It took a while to work out a relatively efficient process to retrieve them.) After seeing these sporadic problems, I don't consider a day without problems to mean I'm home free. So each step takes some time, and the whole process may take a couple months.]
Meanwhile, I will keep this thread pinned to my browser, to come back with a final report on what parts of a profile can be shared. Again, I appreciate your reply.
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