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Importing Thunderbird email (folders and Sub Folders)
Dottonedan:
Hello all,
My old PC Mother Board fried, and now I have a new PC (but also have my old Hard Drive installed). Can I get my old mail (FOLDERS) from the old Thunderbird?
I have always created folders and sub folders where I would store my email from different customers. I organized many different things in my email program using this method. Now, since the crash of 2012, I have lost all that.
I ran into this before when switching from another computer to a new one and could not take the folders with me to the new PC. I see the folder where all of my old Thrunderbird "stuff" is kept, but can't open THAT email program as they (the programs) cannot be copied and re-used from that old HD (right Pierre) ;) So, I must re-install a new program. So, I've lost all my folders with years of emails in them.
We have to have a way around this. Am I missing it? Why give you something in a program that you can't keep?
So, I check on Thunderbird and thus far, I'm reading that I can't get them back What The Fraggle?
royster13:
Not sure how to solve your current problem, but I suggest gmail for the future.....
ebscreen:
Go to your application data/thunderbird/profiles/random number/ folder. Each folder you created should have two files named after it, mbf and one with no extension. Set up your new thunderbird, and copy these files (the ones with no extension) into the profile/random number folder. Start thunderbird and it should have new folders with the same names. May take a while to import, and may not work on huge files.
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Dottonedan:
--- Quote from: ebscreen on May 03, 2012, 10:25:15 PM ---Go to your application data/thunderbird/profiles/random number/ folder. Each folder you created should have two files named after it, mbf and one with no extension. Set up your new thunderbird, and copy these files (the ones with no extension) into the profile/random number folder. Start thunderbird and it should have new folders with the same names. May take a while to import, and may not work on huge files.
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I don't know what platform you are on, but so far, I can't even get past finding the Application Data. Searched and nothing came up. I first thought to look in my program files but nothing. I then thought maybe I should look inside Thunderbird, nothing.
inkman996:
App data folder is c\users\"your name"\appdata
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