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How to integrate messages from one profile to another?

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Danpat2
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Thanks to help from this community, I have three working profiles in T-Bird now on my Windows 10 installation, each containing messages of a different time period. The question is, how can I integrate the mail messages into one profile without destroying or corrupting the messages already there? Obviously, there are the messages within the Inbox, Sent, and Drafts mozmesgs folders. Is it just a matter of copying them and adding to the other profile? But what of the msf files? Hope someone walk me through this. Thanks, Dan

Thanks to help from this community, I have three working profiles in T-Bird now on my Windows 10 installation, each containing messages of a different time period. The question is, how can I integrate the mail messages into one profile without destroying or corrupting the messages already there? Obviously, there are the messages within the Inbox, Sent, and Drafts mozmesgs folders. Is it just a matter of copying them and adding to the other profile? But what of the msf files? Hope someone walk me through this. Thanks, Dan

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I'd use the ImportExportTools add-on to copy folders from the old profiles into Thunderbird. I think they will land in the Local Folders account, but you can then move their contents to your working folders.

You really need only your mailbox files and those with the .sbd ("subdirectory") extension. The msf files are not too important as they can and will be automatically rebuilt when needed. But the add-on will look after these details for you.

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I'd use the ImportExportTools add-on to copy folders from the old profiles into Thunderbird. I think they will land in the Local Folders account, but you can then move their contents to your working folders.

You really need only your mailbox files and those with the .sbd ("subdirectory") extension. The msf files are not too important as they can and will be automatically rebuilt when needed. But the add-on will look after these details for you.

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Danpat2
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Excellent, worked like a charm. Thanks much, Dan