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Having used Outlook for over 20 years I have over 500 folders and thousands of emails. Is there a way to tell how many folders and emails I have? Can Thunderbird handle such a large import, maintain my folders and their hierarchy, and the maintain the emails stored in them?

I use Pop3 and have about 30 email accounts. Is that an issue? Does Thunderbird import all of the account settings?

Can I run both Thunderbird and Outlook simultaneously to determine if Thunderbird has imported everything and the migration is complete and fully functioning?

I read someone had a problem importing because their Outlook was 32 bit versus 64. How do I tell if mine is one or the other?

Do you know of any other import issues/problems?

Hi. I recently had to change email providers and at first chose Proton but had to change again for reasons. Before I moved to proton, I shifted a whack of email to local folders on the advice of someone. I backed up my profile folder before making the move to proton, but didn't realise (I know, 'duh') that local folders didn't move. It wasn't untill I moved again that the local folders in the new install were empty.

All 3 accounts—original, proton & new—had the same email account name/domain but I want to know how I could create another instance of it to port all my old email from the original service—which has all the email still in their original folders (not local) so I have them 'non-local' again and can go through and organize them anew.

The alternative is to connect the local folders to this new instance but I'd rather the first scenario.

I'll only still have access to all 3 providers for another couple of weeks so this is feeling urgent.

Any help/suggestions most welcome. Thanks!

My old computer crashed and I have gotten a new computer. It's a Dell All-in-One. So anyway my question is how do I get my email to cross over to my new computer? Also we had LocalTel for a short time and my email and information went through them. My email address was Lorirn@ifiber.tv, they closed the ifiber.tv email system but was still managing it. So when my computer crashed somehow they knew about it and cancelled my email and closed everything. So now I can't get my emails that I had, which was a lot of them. Some were very important to me. I am in a very bad situation. I am hoping that you can help me somehow. I did try your transfer Thunderbird Profile Files and I don't think that I did that right. I have downloaded Thunderbird to my new computer. So I need lots of help from you if at all possible. I am hoping with fingers crossed. I have had to change my email to Lorirn5755@gmail.com, let me know if more info is needed.

Thanx in advance Lori Bolin