Transfering E-mails from PC to Mac

[TheJoelster]

Ok so I am a huge fan of Thunderbird, it has been a really great program for me and thus I have stuck with it. However I am currently going to be changing from a Windows Laptop to a MacBook. I want to use Thunderbird and was wondering if it is easy transferring the e-mails over and if there was some sort of clean way to do this? Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

Should be able to just copy the profile over, mail is stored in the same box format on all systems, although I haven't tried it myself.

 

[TheJoelster]

So your reccomending just taking a copy of the whole Thunderbird folder from PC and bringing it to the Mac? or is it more specific then that?

 

[Nothinman]

The profile directory, not the install directory.

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Should be able to just copy the profile over, mail is stored in the same box format on all systems, although I haven't tried it myself.

That should work, not only for E-mails but also for contacs...at least it worked when I tried it going from Windows to Xubuntu 🙂

 

[Noema]

Double post 😛

 

[TheJoelster]

Ok well I tried taking my windows profile and putting it in OSX but I am not getting results. Is there a file in the folder I should be replacing or just one file? Thanks!

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: TheJoelster
Ok well I tried taking my windows profile and putting it in OSX but I am not getting results. Is there a file in the folder I should be replacing or just one file? Thanks!

It should be something like:

Documents and Settings\*accountname*\Program Files\Thunderbird\Profiles\*profilename*\Mail

and then copy the 'Mail' folder to the equivalent OSX location; that's where the inbox files are.

but It'd maybe be better to copy the whole *profilename* folder (which is a random string of characters for each profile I think or at least looks like one) to the same location in OSX like Nothingman said.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: TheJoelster
Ok well I tried taking my windows profile and putting it in OSX but I am not getting results. Is there a file in the folder I should be replacing or just one file? Thanks!

Where'd you put it on the mac? Should be in ~/Library/Thunderbird/

 

[chcarnage]

Copy the profile directory to "Macintosh HD" and then start your fresh installation of Thunderbird. I'm sure there's an "Import..." option somewhere in the menus or maybe even a step by step assistant.