Have replaced the motherboard and HDD and now trying to transfer the old TB onto the new, but cannot locate the files on the old HDD which is now drive "E"
My computer stopped working completely and as I was going to upgrade anyway, I brought the work forward. Having replaced everything, (motherboard, HDD) and all was working as it should I turned my attention to my emails. I have tried the Windows 7 transfer wizard, no joy. Tried to find the profile files, no joy. Just can not find anything that remotely seems to be connected to TB. HELP please Thank you
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Thunderbird Profile folders are hidden files, so you need to make hidden files visible first. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
Location of Profile: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird Although your files are now in drive E, not C.
Info on moving to a new pc: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC
If you have downloaded Thunderbird to new pc and run it for the first time, it will create a Profile, but you do not need to create the exisitng mail accounts. Then you would copy the contents of the old hdd E: drive - Profile folder (not the actual Profile folder, only all the files in the Profile folder) and paste them into the new Profile folder overwriting the default files.
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Thunderbird Profile folders are hidden files, so you need to make hidden files visible first. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
Location of Profile: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird Although your files are now in drive E, not C.
Info on moving to a new pc: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC
If you have downloaded Thunderbird to new pc and run it for the first time, it will create a Profile, but you do not need to create the exisitng mail accounts. Then you would copy the contents of the old hdd E: drive - Profile folder (not the actual Profile folder, only all the files in the Profile folder) and paste them into the new Profile folder overwriting the default files.
Toad Hall THANK YOU You really saved my bacon as I had a number of important emails that hadn't been sorted before the crash. So again many thanks DavidLM