Fix Thunderbird configuration paths when moving from FreeBSD 13 to 14

[rosorio]

Today I moved my data from my old laptop using FreeBSD 13 to a new one with a fresh FreeBSD 14 install.
I did a rsync of my home and surprisingly, when I start TB, it was unable to find any of my inboxes, and doesn't report any issuer.
After a couple of minutes digging around I figure out that TB store some location as absolute paths, and since home location changes from FBSD 13 and 14 from /usr/home to /home, TB is lost.

To fix this issue stop TB and go to your profile directory, is the usually is the "<random chars>.default" under ~/.thunderbird or just look into your ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini and run the command bellow:

sed -I.back 's|usr/||' prefs.js

Now restart TB and ....tada.

 

[SirDice]

and since home location changes from FBSD 13 and 14 from /usr/home to /home

The upgrade won't change the paths for existing users though. It also won't move the existing /usr/home/ home directories to /home.

 

[Andriy]

Also, shouldn't there be a compatibility symlink?

 

[SirDice]

Also, shouldn't there be a compatibility symlink?

Yep. That's been there since forever, adduser(8) and pw(8) will use /home by default but I believe that change was made earlier, not exactly sure when.

 

[grahamperrin]

adduser in context:

bsdinstall on zfs: create dataset for /home rather than /usr/home · freebsd/freebsd-src@3bb9230

Now that pw (hence adduser and the initial install) use /home for user home directories rather than /usr/home, create a dataset for /home rather than /usr/home. Update the man page to match. Revi...

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