Vishal Monpara's Blog

For my personal projects, I “was” using CVSNT for version control. I had an old laptop which was crashed few days ago. Fortunately, I had a backup of all the projects CVS files. I got new laptop and I had to install CVSNT but I got another shock. Now for CVSNT, I have to pay $$$ and cannot download older version which I was using. After hours of research, I found the version I was using at http://www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/jbs/tools/downloads/cvsnt/. Finally I installed CVSNT. Now I have installed TortoiseHG for Mercurial and tried its “convert” extension but I was getting following error.

initializing destination hg\GD repository
connecting to :sspi:Administrator@localhost:/cvsdata
abort: unexpected response from CVS server (expected "Valid-requests", but got
'E cvs [server aborted]: Root :sspi:Administrator@localhost:/cvsdata must be an absolute pathname\n')

After struggling a lot with different trial and error methods, I found a solution. Read more…

• Go to c:\document and settings\username\application data\thunderbird\
• Open the file profiles.ini
• Check the setting “Path=Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default”
• Now go to c:\document and settings\username\application data\thunderbird\Profiles\ and copy the folder xxxxxxxx.default for backup.
• Now to export this content to another computer, copy this folder to c:\document and settings\username\application data\thunderbird\Profiles\ on another computer and change the profile.ini to use this new profile by changing the setting “Path”.
• Open the Thunderbird and you are done!!!