If you’ve never done this, it’s an “interesting” user experience, because to this date the Thunderbird authors seem to think that this problem is sufficiently rare and esoteric that it doesn’t need to be solved by their mail client directly (…no comment). However, it got a bit more interesting when I tried to transfer my Thunderbird profile (including mails) over from my previous machine. Now, that “don’t do much with it for a while” phase can last for a long time – when I first got a 64-bit machine, I set it up then didn’t touch it again for the next 3 months in this case it wasn’t that extreme, but it still took me over a week until I started setting up the new machine that was last weekend.įor the most part, this was exactly as boring as you would expect – installing a bunch of programs, copying over data, the works. Now, the way new hardware usually goes for me is I buy it, maybe put it together, make sure that it works properly, then don’t do much with it for a while, and finally decide to spend a weekend to migrating data over from the predecessor machine. Fans don’t work properly anymore so CPU stays permanently down-clocked and I can’t even watch videos without stutters anymore, HD starts making slightly worrying noises, Windows Update gets stuck trying to install one patch on every single shutdown and crashes? Okay, so maybe it was time to buy a new laptop after all. WiFi grows a bit erratic – well, whatever, it never was that stable anyway. Battery charges don’t last as long as they used to – I’m used to that. My laptop was getting a bit long in the tooth – the way that these things go. In which the protagonist fails at performing a seemingly simple task.

It also makes for a nice break from the Trip through the Graphics Pipeline series that’s been dominating this blog recently (conclusion coming Real Soon Now – and there’s 4 other queued up articles in various stages of completion, we’ll see what comes of that).

This is a slight bit of a departure from the usual themes in this blog, but I thought it was interesting enough to write it up anyway.

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