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Importing Thunderbird email (folders and Sub Folders)
ebscreen:
Inkman is correct, and you have to make sure that "hide system folders" is not checked in your Folder Options.
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Frog:
Dan, I got curious and checked, and yes, I found 'em (and if I can find 'em, anyone can!)
In XP, I went to Documents and Settings/Andy/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/x8541ech.default/Mail
Dottonedan:
In Windows 7, here is how I found where you all are talking about. Alas, it still did not work after copying the folders over.
WINDOWS EXPLORER (VIEW, SHOW HIDDEN FOLDERS). - This was the kicker for me. It was hidden before.
1 WENT TO THE OLD DRIVE WHERE THE OLD MAIL PROGRAM RESIDES.
2 USERS
3 APP DATA
4 ROAMING
5 THUNDERBIRD
6 PROFILES
7 (RANDOM NAME/NUMBER FOLDER) - This is where it gets a little different than what you all describe but I have no other options.
8 MAIL
9 POP-SERVER FOUND FOLDERS -YET NONE HAD THAT SAME SUFFIX HE MENTIONED. (MUST BE DIFFERENT IN WINDOWS 7) THEY HAD A DIFFERENT ONE + THE ONES WITH NO SUFFIX.
10 COPY OLD FOLDER NAMES TO (NEW EMAIL).
I also see the actual FOLDERS with proper names that I created. When you look into the folders, you see nothing, but when you copy those folders over, it showed copying 2.7gb. and an additional 1.65gb folders with no suffix.
So, I restarted and NOTHING. no folders. So, I restarted again, nothing. Now, I went to Tbirds support site and found a link to a mod for importing and exporting. Said to be able to do what I'm looking for in one step. (can't get it to work).
Currently still n folders or previous mail.
inkman996:
Dan what version was the old drive windows?
Let me do some testing but I believe you can also place your old profile stuff in a local folder and point TB to that local folder.
inkman996:
This is what i think may be the issue. With XP the file structuring is different than W7. Example below
WinXP c\windows\document and settings\name\application data\thunderbird\profiles\random #s\mail
Win7 c\users\name\app data\roaming\thunderbird\profiles\random #s\mail
As you can see the fold structure is different. Now I believe that with in your mail folder where all the files are relating to your server folders each foler ie. inbox has two files one is the actual mail the other is the settings etc. for that folder. That file I believe has written in it where to point to to retrieve the mail etc, so in XP the inbox file probably points to the above address I spelled out. Now if you copy these files from the xp folder to the new TB install on win7 the files are pointing to the wrong address with in win7 file structure. Make sense?
Here is a trick and i tried it using an old PC back up from an XP machine.
I created a folder in my documents and called it temp. I then copied the mail folder contents from the XP back up to the folder named temp in my documents on my win7 rig.
Then I opened TB and went to account settings from there go to local folders and changed the target path to the test folder.
I rebooted TB and yep all the mail from that XP back up was all in my local folders. From here you can drag and drop everything you want into your POP acount whole folders or individual mail.
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