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When I reinstalled Thunderbird, I got my account back, but the Local Folders were missing. I found where they're hiding on my computer, but I can't figure out how/where to copy and paste that folder so they show up in Thunderbird. Can someone walk me through those last steps, please?

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I am using Thunderbird 128.0 under Windows 10. I routinely archive old emails, with the archives stored in my local Thunderbird folders.

I'd like to periodically delete the older archives, but to keep some sort of backup copy. Is there any way I can copy or export the archive folders to somewhere else, such as another folder on my computer or an external drive?

And if I succeed in doing this, will it be possible to search the copy, and to restore individual messages if necessary?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike

I have a bunch of folders and messages in an email tree in Tbird's Local Folders and I would like to move the root of those local folders and everything below that folder root to a Tbird remote email server which is an account on my Tbird tree. My Tbird is using IMAP to communicate with the desired server.

Is it possible to just drag the root of the tree from the Local Folders and plop it onto the desired server and all the messages would get moved to that remote server and everything would just magically appear there? Is it possible that it's that easy? :-)

I want to ask before I try it and really mess things up.

Thanks!

I have been accessing an e-mail account via web client for many years. The user interface is cumbersome in that it gives limited ability to transfer e-mails to ASCII files on my hard drive (Windows 11 laptop). I have been told that Thunderbird makes this easier and faster, and installed it with this in mind. But first I need to transfer the the e-mails to my local computer and remove them from the server.

I don't know what the verb for this is in Thunderspeak, but "synchronize" goes way beyond what I want to do, transferring data in both directions. All I want to do is download a sub-set of all e-mails to a local copy from which I can make ASCII files.

In the Thunderbird Help section I have found instructions for changing the settings to allow it to download ALL messages at start-up. I only want to download a sub-set of older messages.

The most frustrating part is I have succeeded at doing this twice with older versions of Thunderbird, but don't know how I did it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hello.

My Thunderbird (115.18.0 (64-bit) SUPERNOVA on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS, focal) is setup to download messages locally.

I recently had a hard disc crash on the mail server that one of the mail accounts that I administer uses (used). This means that in Thunderbird I still see the mails and can open them and see the message contents. - I also found (and made a backup copy) of the mbox file that holds these messages.

When I start up Thunderbird I can move one, maybe two messages to the new server location or to a local folder but then the "drag-and-drop" doesn't do anything. If I restart Thunderbird can move a couple more. - It looks like Thunderbird is trying to connect to the lost server and so the message move stops happening.

There are over two thousand messages so this isn't a good solution.

I tried using the off-line mode but received a message to say that messages were not downloaded. - I have a connection to several mail servers at different locations and perhaps not all a set to download messages locally (?).

Other than using a tool like md2mb, which means learning all the various options I'd like to have a more "drag and drop" facility.

Any ideas ? All suggestions gratefully received ;)

-Graham-

I've been using Thunderbird for many years. When I first set it up on my Windows 10 computer I had the mail files in my "Documents" file (for easier cloud backup), rather in "AppData." Unfortunately I can't remember how I did that.

Now I am forced to move everything to a Windows 11 computer and I can't figure out how to properly transfer the "Mail" file. I have the profile transferred, but not the Mail file. Any help will be most appreciated!

I want to backup the entire T-bird email database (all my emails) outside of T-bird as simply as possible. How does one do this in, I hope, one easy step? Note that I have 8 accounts (1 is g-mail). (I don't know which category this fits into.)

David: You were right, I'd taken the file instead of the folder. This morning I erased the flash and started again. Copied the folder. Moved to Laptop, pasted the folder. No questions of overwriting or anything. However when I went into Tbird, it was screwed up. It runs, but there are messages missing, none of my mailboxes were there, so I assume none of my addresses as well. There were 4 messages in the IN box. There was 1 new msg that came in when I opened the program, and it properly brought over 3 from the old folder. There were 0 drafts, and I have a slew of them on my old app. It brought over a lot of sent msgs which might be okay, hard to sort them all out. Several of the messages were dated no more recently than 8-30. I use my computer every day, there are posts in here up until this morning. It brought over 0 archived, should be some. And in Junk it brought 213 over, but in the old app I have 1. In Trash it brought over 571 msgs, some of which may be correct it's hard to figure it all out. If I did something wrong, why didn't it affect Everything? I'm so dispirited and exhausted by now I'm thinking it might be easier to re-enter the contacts and mailboxes by hand! If you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them. I'm writing to you on my old machine because yesterday I had problems using this site with the laptop. Thanks, Stacy

I am trying to copy a large number of emails (about 1,000) from one folder (which in on gmail) to a local folder. However, TB seems to be not up to the task. I can move one email at a time but that, of course, is not practical for my purposes. However, even if I break it down into 30 or 40 emails at a time, it copies some of them and not others. Anyone know what the problem is? I will admit that some of the emails are quite large (5-10 MB). Could this be the issue? Are there limits on the size of a folder? How do I know what those limits are?

Working with TB 128.11.0esr (64-bit) on a Macbook running Sequoia 15.4.1.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.

If I have synchronized my email host to Thunderbird locally, THEN switch to a new email host (where my IMAP on the new host is empty), will Thunderbird then synchronize everything stored locally from the old host UP to my new host? Assuming, of course, that I change my connection settings in Thunderbird from my old host to my new email host.

I am transitioning from Google Workspace to an IMAP email hosted by InMotion Hosting. Wish me luck.

Hi there,

My email provider has just migrated my email address to a new server, which all went smoothly in the end. I thought that would be the hard part but it's actually Thunderbird that is giving me headaches.

I can send and receive mails fine but need to set up my Thunderbird folders again and copy in all my old emails. In other words, a new account has been set up for the same email address and I have kept the old account for the same email address until I have copied out everything I need from it.

But copying folders and mails doesn't always work and there seems to be absolutely no logic behind it - sometimes it works and something it doesn't.

Thunderbird won't let me copy my "Customers" folder with 30 subfolders in it so I have to do each of these manually. Again, some work, some don't.

Most of the time, an error message or three pops up because the old address wants me to enter my password again, which is no longer valid. And that usually scuppers any attempt to copy a folder manually.

I have unticked the three boxes under account settings so that it doesn't look for new mails every X minutes, when starting up, etc.

Is there any clever way I can avoid all this? Would it help if I did all this offline?

And does anyone know why the blasted folders are so difficult to copy?!!

Very grateful for any tips - thanks,

Ian

This is second request (can't find the first). I need to import multiple (bookoo) .EML files into TB 115.10 to later move into "folders". Several weeks ago I somehow found someway to import a single .EML file (downloaded from an old ISP) into TB -- and then got busy with other projects -- and now cannot figure how I did it. I did not use an extension (ImportExportTools NG) -- just the native tools in TB 115.10. If anyone is familiar with importing EML files -- sure would appreciate suggestions. Thanks.

Jeg har brugt microsoft 365 med outlook og oprettet Gruppe mails, den ville jeg gerne importere sammen med mine kontakter, men den kommer ikke med. Kan jeg få den med i Thunderbird eller skal jeg oprette den manuelt. De kontakter der er i gruppen kommer alle med når jeg vælger den som modtager i mails. gør den også det i Thunderbird. Kan jeg tilføje flere kontakter / mail adresser fra adressebogen uden at skal indtaste en enkelvis. I outlook er der mulighed for at åbne gruppen og via tilføj , tilføje flere kontakter fra adresse kartoteket til gruppen.

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I am trying to copy and paste from my old HP Envy laptop the Local Folders that have 3 email accounts onto my new HP Spectr allinone laptop. Toad Hall helped me in the past to recover all of the emails from being changed from POP to IMAP as directed by Comcast support. All is working perfectly fine with all of the comcast emails within 3 accounts under Local Folders.

The issue now is I just downloaded Thunderbird onto my new HP Spectre and followed Toad's suggestion: Now to locate those folders

windows search type : %Appdata% Select %Appdata% file folder Select the 'Roaming' folder Select the 'Thunderbird' folder Select the profile name folder Select the 'Mail' folder Select the 'Local Folders' folder

But there is no 'Mail' folder and no 'Local Folders' folder at all. I did find it under the profile name with release and tried to paste the Local Folders but when I launched Thunderbird there was nothing appearing under Local Folders under Account Settings. The path for Local Directory said:

Local Directory: C:\Users\Fred\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\4e3....default (not showing 100% of the profile name for security purposes) There is no \Mail\Local Folders appearing.

I did copy 3 Comcast Local email folders from the HP Envy onto my external hard drive of the sbd folders. Inside each of the sbd folders are the Inbox, Sent and Trash files

All of the 3 Comcast emails setup on IMAP were successfully setup and all of the emails were received. So that part is working perfectly fine.

I just need help getting all of the Local Folders pasted from the old HP Envy to the HP Sprectr laptop.

Thank you to all of you for any help you can offer on this!

Had issues with Comcast emails. They were set up with POP settings. Was on the phone with Comcast and uninstalled 3 email addresses and reinstalled using IMAP settings. I did not delete the message data leaving that box unchecked. After about 1.5 hours on the phone with Comcast was able to get the reinstalled Comcast email addresses to pull all of the emails off Comcast website. But there are emails that are missing from each of the inbox and sent folders for each of the 3 Comcast email addresses.

I do an incremental weekly backup using Acronis True Image 2020 Home Edition. I see the folders in the path but since they were saved last Saturday under POP settings, the backups I will need to try to recover are in 3 of the Comcast folders in the "MAIL" folder and not "IMAPMAIL" folder which listed 6 folders from imap.comcast1.net through imapcomcast6.net.

What do I need to copy from the correct Comcast folder called "Profile" where the izpoojy7.default is? Within this izpoojy7.default is the folder mail.comcast-1.net which has 1 of the 3 Comcast email addresses I need to recover the inboxes and sent folder emails. Please see the attached photo of the contents of this mail.comcast-1.net folder.

Do I just copy the Inbox.mozmsgs as well as the Sent.mozmsgs files? Or do I also need to recover more of the files within the respective mail.comcast-1.net folder? Thank you for any assistance you can offer on this matter.

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Trying to import from the G:/ drive and separately from the E:/ drive without success.

I have many eails stored on Thunderbird servers and wish to reduce my footprint by first copying or moving some of them to USB drives, then deletinng the originals. How do I do this?

How can I install Thunderbird on an external USB drive for my Mac, and, import an mbox to it (or a bunch of mboxes?) that also lives on that external drive? And keep this email account data disconnected from the original account it came from, that is, do NOT have it sync with Gmail? Perhaps it's best if I describe my situation and the result I'm trying to achieve.... (sorry for the length of this question; I'm trying to be precise and comprehensive at the same time 😬)

Situation: 1. Used macOS Mail for years, to manage a Gmail account 2. Recently used takeout.google.com to download the mbox for this account, which turned out to be 91.01GB (!) 3. I tried using macOS Mail on another computer to open it, and it's not happening; file seems too large; I get an error message saying the Mac's memory has been used up and Mail has stopped working 4. I'm currently waiting for a subsequent Google Takeout download that I expect will consist of many, many mbox files (each mbox corresponding to its own label, according to How to Download/Export Emails with Google Takeout) 5. I have limited space on my computer and would like to avoid accommodating 91.01+GB of historical email data

Desired result: 1. I'm basically trying to create a back-up of all my Gmail emails so that... 2. I can delete a bunch of them, reorganize them, etc. using my macOS Mail program, while being confident that... 3. I can always return to the easily accessible and searchable emails in Thunderbird

Add'l Thoughts/Specific questions: 1. Can I install and run the macOS version of Thunderbird on an external USB thumbdrive by simply dragging the TB app icon to the external drive to start the installation process? 2. Assuming TB has successfully been installed on the external drive, how do I make sure TB knows that the data from the mbox(es) I import should "live" on the external drive as well?

Thank you so much for reading and in advance for your advice.