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Still reeling...
Jun. 25th, 2016 10:29 amI've actually started to try to do wok, and it would appear that about every five minutes, I run into something that reminds me of the very many tweaks that I've made to my system over the years, at which point I have to figure out whether to do things "by hand" or to take the time to reimplement the tweak.
Last night, I spent a lot of time trying to reconstruct my Thunderbird setup, and was stymied primarily by the abundance of bad information on the Web. The point is that tabula rasa, T-bird goes about the task of trying to set you up from scratch. And while it's possible to point the application at a "profile" that I managed to extract from the "dead" hard drive and copy onto the new one, every reference I found neglected to tell me what I needed to know, which was that the folder with all the old mail, etc. was not where "help" pages commonly say it is.
When I figured out where that data was, I copied it from the "dead" drive, and then onto my rejuvenated machine, and while it took some while for T-bird to make sense of the data (there was a gynormous sqlite file that, in the end, did not have to be copied from the "dead" drive, which apparently threw T-bird into a paroxysm of figuring out what's what), things look normal.
More later. I've got an impossible amount of work to complete before Monday morning, and every distraction just makes it that much more impossible.
Cheers...
Last night, I spent a lot of time trying to reconstruct my Thunderbird setup, and was stymied primarily by the abundance of bad information on the Web. The point is that tabula rasa, T-bird goes about the task of trying to set you up from scratch. And while it's possible to point the application at a "profile" that I managed to extract from the "dead" hard drive and copy onto the new one, every reference I found neglected to tell me what I needed to know, which was that the folder with all the old mail, etc. was not where "help" pages commonly say it is.
When I figured out where that data was, I copied it from the "dead" drive, and then onto my rejuvenated machine, and while it took some while for T-bird to make sense of the data (there was a gynormous sqlite file that, in the end, did not have to be copied from the "dead" drive, which apparently threw T-bird into a paroxysm of figuring out what's what), things look normal.
More later. I've got an impossible amount of work to complete before Monday morning, and every distraction just makes it that much more impossible.
Cheers...
