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I need to back up my emails so I can replace my hard drive.

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I read the answer "I NEED TO BACK UP EMAIL FILES, THAT CAN STILL BE READ LATER". but that was in reference to IMAP and I'm using POP. I expect that the procedure is the same, but here's the problem. I have a lot of files that have attachments. The answer did not expressly say that the attachments and / or embedded images would be included with the backed up emails. I expect that most people take it for granted, but this is the first time I'm trying to back up the files. Several years ago I did "save page as" with some pages in Firefox and when I opened them up again the pages were nothing like the original. I suspect that the only thing that got saved were the links to the images that had been on it, and they were no longer on the net. since then I've been nervous about back ups and import / export. My hard drive is failing so I have to replace the drive, reload TB and bring the files back. If anyone can give me some guidance I would greatly appreciate it. Dave

I read the answer "I NEED TO BACK UP EMAIL FILES, THAT CAN STILL BE READ LATER". but that was in reference to IMAP and I'm using POP. I expect that the procedure is the same, but here's the problem. I have a lot of files that have attachments. The answer did not expressly say that the attachments and / or embedded images would be included with the backed up emails. I expect that most people take it for granted, but this is the first time I'm trying to back up the files. Several years ago I did "save page as" with some pages in Firefox and when I opened them up again the pages were nothing like the original. I suspect that the only thing that got saved were the links to the images that had been on it, and they were no longer on the net. since then I've been nervous about back ups and import / export. My hard drive is failing so I have to replace the drive, reload TB and bring the files back. If anyone can give me some guidance I would greatly appreciate it. Dave

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Thanks I haven't detached any attachments, but I have saved the attachments to files on the drive. So I thought that might be considered an extraction. I'm running Spinrite on the drive right now, but I'll get busy with the links you sent me. Should I mark this solved and ask a new question if something else comes up? Once again Thank you, Dave

PS. I'm curious about the purpose of the link that TB keeps.

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Backup the entire profile. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Backing_Up_and_Restoring

Also see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC

There is no real difference for backing up the profile, regardless of whether POP or IMAP is used to retrieve mail. With POP all messages are downloaded to the local computer. Unless you deliberately extracted attachments from messages, they are stored along with the message.

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christ1 said

"Unless you deliberately extracted attachments from messages, they are stored along with the message."

Thanks For getting back to me. When you say "extracted" do you mean "detached". Or are they the same thing?

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When you say "extracted" do you mean "detached".

Yes, that's what I meant. Either detached or deleted.

When detaching an attachment Thunderbird maintains a link to the detached file in the file system but removes the attachment itself from the message.

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Thanks I haven't detached any attachments, but I have saved the attachments to files on the drive. So I thought that might be considered an extraction. I'm running Spinrite on the drive right now, but I'll get busy with the links you sent me. Should I mark this solved and ask a new question if something else comes up? Once again Thank you, Dave

PS. I'm curious about the purpose of the link that TB keeps.

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Should I mark this solved and ask a new question if something else comes up?

Yes, please.

I'm curious about the purpose of the link that TB keeps.

You can open the attachment from the message, even though the attachment has been detached. Note, detach means removing the attachment from the message.