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how to back up emails in Windows 10

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Lynnthurston
Lynnthurston

I want to back up my emails from Thunderbird to an external drive. The information on the internet wasn't very useful. Does anybody know how to do this?

I want to back up my emails from Thunderbird to an external drive. The information on the internet wasn't very useful. Does anybody know how to do this?

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"Back up" - and what do you intend to do with the "backup"?

If you want to be able to restore Thunderbird after a nasty accident such as a hardware failure, the best thing to do is make a copy of its profile.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data

Sometimes users say "backup" when they really mean "archive". If you want to store messages outside Thunderbird, look at the ImportExportTools add-on.

Note that it also offers an automated backup tool.

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html

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"Back up" - and what do you intend to do with the "backup"?

If you want to be able to restore Thunderbird after a nasty accident such as a hardware failure, the best thing to do is make a copy of its profile.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data

Sometimes users say "backup" when they really mean "archive". If you want to store messages outside Thunderbird, look at the ImportExportTools add-on.

Note that it also offers an automated backup tool.

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html