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How to transfer my accounts from Mozilla Thunderbird?

Hi Experts,

I have a Windows 7 computer and the hard drive crash but I have access to all the files.
I have MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD.
I need to transfer the 4 accounts with all the settings and emails into the new hard drive and It will be Windows 7 again, I follow some suggestions on this site like copy the profiles from the crash hard drive and paste the whole profile folder located on COMPUTER-USERS-JOE-APPDATA-THUNDERBIRD-PROFILES but when I open Thunderbird it is empty.

Please advise.

Gary Case

What you need to determine is exactly where your Thunderbird store folder was For example, I always set mine to D:\Gary's Stuff\Thunderbird Mail ... I have over 6GB of mail stored in the folder structure there -- VERY well backed up on my network.

I gather from your question you don't know just where yours was stored ... so do a search on the old drive for *.msf to see if you can find the Thunderbird stores for your accounts. Once you know the folder containing the mail -- e.g. "MyMailStuff" ... you can copy that entire folder to the new system -- and set Thunderbird to use that folder as your mail store.

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rindi

You could also use the small utility "mozbackup" which allows you to save firefox and thunderbird profiles, and import them again:

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

chenzovicc

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You made it so simple and I was doing the whole process fine yesterday but the problem was I was putting the file in the LOCAL folder instead of the ROAMING folder.

Thanks