How you save the entire content of Thunderbird to external drive?
Obviously backing up all folders content including illustrations, pictures, music, PFDs and text attachments is a big transfer but what would be the point of saving files without the program to organise and view them when the external drive is plugged into another computer. Please if anyone can help it would take a step by step route to achieve this. Thank you.
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I don't quite follow you. You're pointing out the difficulty inherent in saving material that needs a specific program to work with it, and then, apparently, asking how to do it. I guess I have failed to understand your question.
The usual way of exporting emails, in Thunderbird, will save them in eml format and most reputable email clients should let you open these.
If you want to be able to carry your email about with you, then look for the "portable apps" version of Thunderbird which can be installed, along with its mail store, on a thumbdrive or similar. I suspect that regular Thunderbird could also be installed this way, and its profile settings tweaked to suit, but I'm pretty sure there would be interesting issues with the pathname varying as you plug it into different places.
If you're doing a backup, then what you need is to preserve your Thunderbird profile.