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can 2 users share thunderbird data but nothing else

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Can 2 users share Thunderbirds address book,settings,data, inbox etc without sharing anything else on Ubuntu 6.06

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) said : 		#1

it is surely possible using "ln -s" and changing permissions on the thunderbird data folder. Please provide the name of your thunderbird data folder as I'm not using it (in nautilus Display menu, unhide the hidden files and then try to find a .thunderbird folder or a .mozilla one containing a .thunderbird folder) in order for me to help you.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#2

A search on thunderbird produces 44 results.
There is a mozilla-thunderbird folder in
/etc
/usr/lib
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/var/lib

I dont know which of these is the data folder.
Hope this helps.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#3

The information for the users is kept for thunderbird in the folder ~/.mozilla-thunderbird

I hope this helps.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#4

~/.mozilla-thunderbird

I dont seem to have this folder

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#5

Execute an "ls -a" on your home directory. In Dapper it might have been ".thunderbird", or maybe inside the ".mozilla" folder.

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Peter (nitep) said : 		#6

I am sorry, I forgot to unhide the hidden files.
.mozilla-thunderbird is there. I have put the 2 users in a group and both users have full permissions to .mozilla-thunderbird . The first user owns it but I am still not sure how to get the second user to use it in thunderbird.

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Best Peter (nitep) said : 		#7

I have solved the problem by creating a dummy user to hold the .mozilla-thunderbird settings and data. User1, user2 and the dummy user were put in a group having permissions on the /home/dummy user. Links were created from user1 and user2 to .mozilla-thunderbird in /home/dummy user.