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moving stored email from old pc to new pc

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old windows 7 computer died, looks like mother board went out. Have hard drive with all my wifes old thunderbird emails. Have new windows 10 up and running. is there a way I can retrieve her old emails and move them into the newly created windows 10 thunderbird?

old windows 7 computer died, looks like mother board went out. Have hard drive with all my wifes old thunderbird emails. Have new windows 10 up and running. is there a way I can retrieve her old emails and move them into the newly created windows 10 thunderbird?

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You could copy the entire Thunderbird folder from the old drive to the new one, but to recover just the mail folders, open the old profile folder in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\8characters.default, then open the Mail/<popserver>, ImapMail/<imapserver> and Mail/Local Folders subfolders, and copy the mbox files - large files with no extension, named after folders, e.g. Inbox - into Mail/Local Folders of the new profile folder, while TB is closed. The folders should appear under Local Folders in the Folder Pane when TB is restarted.

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You could copy the entire Thunderbird folder from the old drive to the new one, but to recover just the mail folders, open the old profile folder in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\8characters.default, then open the Mail/<popserver>, ImapMail/<imapserver> and Mail/Local Folders subfolders, and copy the mbox files - large files with no extension, named after folders, e.g. Inbox - into Mail/Local Folders of the new profile folder, while TB is closed. The folders should appear under Local Folders in the Folder Pane when TB is restarted.