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| Thread ID: 132841 | 2013-05-23 06:39:00 | Transferring Thunderbird to new laptop | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1342709 | 2013-05-23 06:39:00 | I'm helping my neighbour set up her new laptop. I've installed Thunderbird, and I've copied all her files holus-bolus from her old PC, to be winnowed out later. I thought I had pointed T-bird at the data store from her old PC, but I'm not seeing her folder structure or her old emails. As I understand it the file is in the "Profiles" folder - is that right? What is the file name of the datastore? I don't have the laptop in front of me, but I think there was a .sbd file plus some sort of .dft file. Are these the ones I should be looking at? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1342710 | 2013-05-23 07:05:00 | Grab MozBackup (sourceforge.net) Use it to make a backup of all your emails. (Remember the save location) Then take a copy of Mozbackup and the backed up files to the new computer. After you install TB, use Mozbackup to overwrite your new TB files. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 1342711 | 2013-05-23 07:18:00 | You just need to drop the old profile into the profiles folder and adjust the profiles.ini | fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1342712 | 2013-05-23 09:04:00 | My Thunderbird emails (in Win7) are in a folder called tncxgx6i.default located in AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles I just copy the whole folder across (I don't think I have to adjust an ini file. Just calling it .default does the trick... but I could be wrong) |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1342713 | 2013-05-23 10:45:00 | Thanks everyone. I don't get access to the laptop till tomorrow. I'll try it then. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1342714 | 2013-05-24 03:36:00 | +1 Grab MozBackup (sourceforge.net) Use it to make a backup of all your emails. (Remember the save location) Then take a copy of Mozbackup and the backed up files to the new computer. After you install TB, use Mozbackup to overwrite your new TB files. |
Robnhd (16012) | ||
| 1342715 | 2013-05-24 04:48:00 | OK, we're all sorted. I used Mozbackup as suggested, and that seemed to do the trick. When I did the restore it put everything under "Local Folders", so I moved them all under the user name. I'm not a Thunderbird user, and I couldn't find a way (a) to do any sort of bulk folder move, and (b) to do a move instead of a copy. Was I missing something obvious, or doesn't Tbird do that? Only asking out of interest, as everything is actually good now. Thanks for all the help. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1342716 | 2013-05-24 04:57:00 | Good is good! I've done the individual folder copy before - doesn't really take long. And copy is good as you have the originals there if you mess it up! | linw (53) | ||
| 1342717 | 2013-05-24 05:02:00 | My question was really one of general self-education, as it is all done now. In fact it took a while as there were dozens of folders. | Tony (4941) | ||
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