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I don't think this is possible. You could create a new profile and import them into this, then you can get them whenever you need them.<br />
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Re Outlook PST files, it is best to avoid opening them over a network, they can get corrupted. If it is for a backup, then run a local backup to backup the PST files onto the network and back them up. <br />
this will save you some problems in the future
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I don't think this is possible. You could create a new profile and import them into this, then you can get them whenever you need them.

Re Outlook PST files, it is best to avoid opening them over a network, they can get corrupted. If it is for a backup, then run a local backup to backup the PST files onto the network and back them up.
this will save you some problems in the future

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We have a user who left the company months ago, we have his thunderbirdd mail profile folder backed up to a network location (eg. Z:\IT\Backup Tim)<br />
Is there a way that I can open that mail folder without importing the whole thing into my mailbox nor copy it onto the C drive. <br />
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I know that Outlook can easily open a PST anywhere on the network but its not quite obvious for Thunderbird. Please help
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We have a user who left the company months ago, we have his thunderbirdd mail profile folder backed up to a network location (eg. Z:\IT\Backup Tim)
Is there a way that I can open that mail folder without importing the whole thing into my mailbox nor copy it onto the C drive. 

I know that Outlook can easily open a PST anywhere on the network but its not quite obvious for Thunderbird. Please help

Opening an old Thunderbird mail profile on a network drive

Thunderbird is an email, newsgroup, news feed, and chat (XMPP, IRC, Twitter) client that supports POP and IMAP and LDAP address completion. The vanilla version is not a personal information manager, although the Mozilla Lightning extension adds PIM functionality. Thunderbird can manage multiple email, newsgroup, and news feed accounts and supports multiple identities within accounts. Features such as quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, and labels help manage and find messages. Thunderbird incorporates a Bayesian spam filter, a whitelist based on the included address book, and can also understand classifications by server-based filters such as SpamAssassin. Extensions allow the addition of features.

Thunderbird

An email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program in the category of groupware environments used to access and manage a user's email. A web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions may internally act as an email client; as a whole, it is commonly referred to as webmail. Likewise, email client may be referred to a piece of computer hardware or software whose primary or most visible role is to work as an email client. Email clients can also have other systems, like calendars, notes and contact managers.