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what is the name of the folder that contain the emails?

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gideon4u
gideon4u

I have 2 hard drives on my computer, the one hag windows xp on it. Now I am using Windows 7 and want to excess the emails that was on the other disk. Is there a folder or something where the mails is stored that I can copy so that I can get the mails or are they gone forever?

I have 2 hard drives on my computer, the one hag windows xp on it. Now I am using Windows 7 and want to excess the emails that was on the other disk. Is there a folder or something where the mails is stored that I can copy so that I can get the mails or are they gone forever?

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Zenos
Zenos

It's all in your profile.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

Since you have started over with a clean profile, it's probably too late to tell you about using your old profile on your new computer.

You could import old mbox files into your new profile. This add-on is useful:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/