Thunderbird Q: Is there a way to back up my emails and move them to another computer?

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HELP ME! I'm giving my beloved Fujitsu laptop to my sister, but I'd like to preserve my emails from thunderbird. Is there a way to back them up and add them to another computer just as they are? (Right now they are organized in a number of different folders)

EDITTT: Problem is now that I have a mac and I dont know what to do. Where do I put my copied backup folder full of profile crap?

 

[MrChad]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_your_mail%2C_address_books%2C_and_settings

 

[Megatomic]

Save This Folder. That's where your mail is stored. You can paste the contents into the profile folder of the computer you are migrating to. Just make sure to have Thunderbird installed first of course.

 

[Kaido]

Yes, it's really, really easy. In fact, I'm doing it today. If you're using XP, it's right here:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Thunderbird

After closing Thunderbird, just copy the entire Thunderbird folder to a CD, burn, and then drag-and-drop to your new computer (make sure Tbird is installed on there too). Or right-click and zip it up and send it to your gmail account, a thumbdrive, network file server, whatever. Man I love Tbird

Note - to see the Application Data folder, you'll have to enable View Hidden Folders and Files in the folder options.

 

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Found it and its 511mb!

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: rnp614
Found it and its 511mb!

Yeah, mine is just under 400 megs. REMEMBER: Close Thunderbird before backing up!!

 

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How do I pull up these emails on a mac?

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: rnp614
How do I pull up these emails on a mac?

Importing to Thunderbird on the Mac or a different program? If different, please specify which one.

 

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importing to thunderbird on mac.

 

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anyone?

 

[n0cmonkey]

I think you just put them in place and open Thunderbird. Did that not work?

 

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put them in place? its a mac i dunno where the heck to put anything!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: rnp614
put them in place? its a mac i dunno where the heck to put anything!

Somewhere under ~/Library (~/ being your home directory). I'm not at home and don't have access to my PB or mini, so I don't know the exact location...

For user specific application configurations each OS has a directory/directories to store them. In windows it's something like C:/documents and settings/username/Application data. In Mac OS X it's ~/Library. In general unix and unix-like systems it's usually just ~/ (with other directories holding each application's configuration if necessary).

 

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details?

 

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anyone?

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: rnp614
put them in place? its a mac i dunno where the heck to put anything!

Somewhere under ~/Library (~/ being your home directory). I'm not at home and don't have access to my PB or mini, so I don't know the exact location...

For user specific application configurations each OS has a directory/directories to store them. In windows it's something like C:/documents and settings/username/Application data. In Mac OS X it's ~/Library. In general unix and unix-like systems it's usually just ~/ (with other directories holding each application's configuration if necessary).

Linky

 

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for some reason I dont have any of those directories!!!

 

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problem solved. Thanks for the help guys!