[Techtalk] moving .mozilla to external drive

[freepalestin at dslextreme.com]

Deborah Gronke Bennett

> freepalestin at dslextreme.com wrote:
>> I use Seamonkey to read my email.
>>
>> Is there a way to move .mozilla to an external drive and have access to
>> my
>> email on the external drive?
>>
>> I tried using mv and setting a symlink. That did not work. I tried
>> having the .mozilla in my home directory and setting symlinks
>> in the different account directories under the Mail directory. That
>> didn't
>> work either.
>>
>> I don't understand why this won't work. I'm not even queried for my
>> passwords for my email accounts when I start mail under seamonkey.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Darlene Wallach
>>
>>
> Just an idea - have you tried hard links instead of the symlinks yet?
>
>

As far as I know hard links will not work from one drive to another drive.
I want to move the directory to an external drive.

Darlene