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I've (finally!) managed to set up a new account on my new PC (having found the required password, a long string of letters - where did that come from? - I would certainly never have chosen that and I was never informed of it). I also successfully managed to transfer my Profile from the old PC to the new one (thanks to your helpful article. However, While I have thousands of 'sent' messages I only have a few in my inbox and sub-folders (i.e. today's). (I originally used the recommended server settings (?IMAP) I was offered but then changed to SMTP/POP which is what I always used before without problems.) So - I go to 'Import from a Thunderbird profile' and it shows me the Profile Name and Directory details, but then says 'Nothing can be imported from the selected source' - but doesn't tell me why not, nor what I should do about it! Given the Profile has transferred successfully, why can't it be accessed? Any ideas appreciated. Thanks, David Collins.

Purchased new laptop. Used export tool in Thunderbird to external HD. Traded in old laptop. Installed Thunderbird & attempted to import my email profile. Import tool requires zip file, but the only file on my external HD is a .default file. I'm getting new email but none of my old emails. Consulted Best Buy Geek & he determined the import tool didn't work properly because the export was missing required files. We further determined the export backup must not have worked properly.

How do I restore selected emails or folders from a backup made with Export? I only want to bring in 30 or so (which were accidentally deleted). I'm using a Windows 11 PC.

I'm nervous about reloading the backup because it was some time ago (and I *really* don't want it to download new emails).

I am losing my Mediacom ISP account (which I have had for 20 years) at the end of this month. I have used Mediacoms web mail server all this time and want to keep many emails and addresses that are on their server. I was told that Thunderbird would allow me to transfer/copy these messages to my computer and retain them there in Thunderbird after I no longer have access to Mediacoms server. I have installed Thunderbird 3 times and spent 2-3 days with help from this forum trying to gt it to work properly but have not succeeded. I have a windows 10 HP laptop and am not completely computer literate so I don't believe I will solve this by myself. I even loaded up an old windows 7 computer which I did with ver 15. but that didn't work either. THe one difference I did notice is that the Tbird auto installation on my Win 10 machine selects POP and on the Win 7 machine it selects IMAP. Mediacom is uses IMAP

I have followed the directions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer#thunderbird:mac:tb146 several times but only one acct is transferred and NO local folders. I am going from Thunderbird 146.0.1 on a Windows 11 PC to a Mac Mini M4 running Sequoia 15.3.1

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I want to open my MSG files in Thunderbird, but with attachments. I have received a large number of MSG files that are so large in size, and my main problem is that I want all of those files in my Thunderbird. Manually doing that took a lot of time plus in some files, attachments were not supported. Any reliable way to open .msg in Thunderbird?

How do I ensure that archived messages go onto my local computer and are removed from my e-mail account on the cloud? (I use CPANEL with a strict limit on space.)

I'm trying to move some old folders to Local Folders. They are currently in subfolders of the account, not in inbox. I've right-clicked on the folder and then selected move to>local folders>folder name. They disappear from the imap spot but don't show up under local folders. Can anyone help?

Hi all! I'm trying to get away from a Google Workspace account, but I need to import my old emails. At the suggestion of my host Hover, I've followed these instructions:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/14339894?sjid=15634570323802523034-NC

and created a bunch of ZIP files in Google Cloud Storage, as shown in the attached screenshot.

1) In the Thunderbird Import tool, I select "import from a file" in Step 1, and then "Import Backed-up Profile (.zip)" in Step 2 - is that correct?

2) In step 3 is to choose a file to import. How do I know which file to select?

3) then in step 4, do I unselect everything except mail messages? That's mostly what is important.

Thank you thank you!

Hi, I am Div, and I have a large number of EML files which I want to send to Thunderbird. Can anyone tell me the best ways?? I know the manual method, but it didn't work out for me because I want my files to be imported safely in bulk, as it is my daily work. I want a reliable solution. Will be really thankful if someone suggests a safe and quick solution.

Hey guys,

I am relatively new to Thunderbird but I love it so far but...

Second time this has happened and I figured this time its time to fix this correctly.

So emails just vanished in my inbox. Items still in sent and trash and other sub-folders.

I can't tell you exactly the last thing I was doing. But it was either message filtering or deleting unnecessary emails. Then I clicked on another folder and when I moved back to inbox everything was gone. Checked the filter and seems in order.

Everything is still on the host server. How to I recover the emails from the host back to my computer because as far as thunderbird is concerned its already downloaded those email.

Emails are run as POP.

Mon compte thunderbird a été supprimé En réinstallant Thunderbird, j'ai récupéré la réception des mails récents et le carnet d'adresses mais perdu les messages envoyés, en instance , les brouilons, les archives. Je les vois toujours dans C/Utilisateurs/nom/Appadata/roaming/Thunderbird/Mail/pop.sfr.fr et ensuite dans archives.sbd et inbox.sbd . Comment les importer dans thunderbird. J'ai essayé l'importation du profil sans succès. Merci de votre aide

I have a comcast.net account but I use the Thunderbird app. How much trouble am I going to have moving to the Yahoo.mail for COMCAST? Will I have any extra steps that I will have to do. I am very apprehensive about this move.

New laptop. Took it to the Geek Squad to move the data from my wife's old computer to new. They had me sign in to Windows on the new machine and perform the setup steps, then took it and the old computer to do the data transfer. The issue is that the returned new computer had my MS profile on it but my wife's mail under that profile.

To try to correct this, I set up my wife's profile on the new laptop and my thought was to export the email from my MS account's TB data to a public folder, turn off TB and sign off my MS profile, sign back on to my wife's MS profile, start TB and import the zip file in the public folder. However, it tells me the folder is too large and I must unzip and import from the extracted folder. Windows Explorer won't let me unzip the file saying it's not a valid zip file. Ideas?

Thanks!

Have two email accounts: Outlook and Gmail. They check and pull mail off the servers independently. I would prefer to only have to look in ONE account for my mail. I have chosen Outlook. I am having problems getting Thunderbird to push the emails in my Gmail folders to the corresponding Outlook folders. Is that because it can't be done? In settings for GMail account, under Copies and folders, I push: Sent messages > Sent on d*******1@outlook.com Archives folder > Archive on d*******1@outlook.com Drafts > Drafts folder on d*******1@outlook.com but they don't seem to be going there.

Is there a way to move messages in GMail TRASH to Outlook DELETED? As you can see, I'm not very aquainted with these things and am pretty confused. Any help appreciated.

I converted my old Outlook emails in to MBOX using the Syscurve conversion software, and then moved the MBOX file into my Local Folder for Thunderbird. When I open Thunderbird it sees the file, but does not see the folders or messages inside the file. The Local Folder has the following three files in it (plus the trash, etc.): output_20251127110416.mbox 4,194,310 kb output_20251127110416.mbox.msf 2 kb output_20251127110416.msf 2 kb Thunderbird shows the output_20251127110416.mbox in the Local Folder but says no messages found when I click on it. How do I get Thunderbird to see the mbox files?

Wife's computer died, but I saved the HDD. Got Tbird installed on the new one, retrieved and installed her addressbook on the new computer. Apparently she had a had a folder with saved messages on the old one. Where do I find this on the old harddrive? Recent version of Tbird on old computer, newest iteration on new computer. I have the original hard drive in hot swappable bay right now.

I have tried to set up an import from my gmail account to my thunderbird account but I always get an error message saying wrong configuration. How do I get this account set up? Buck