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Restoring emails and folders from previous installation

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vascomartins32
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Hello all, Newcomer here. My HDD died and I had to install a new one. I was able to recover my Thunderbird profile files from the HDD that failed. I have installed the latest version of Thunderbird and configured it with my hotmail account without any problems.

I wanted to use the ImportExportTools add-on to add my previous emails and folder structure but, apparently, this add-on is no longer supported in this latest Thunderbird version and I'm unable to find any other tool for the job.

I found a guide that shows how to manually copy and paste the old profile, but I'm worried that doing this will delete the messages that I've already downloaded from the server.

So, in short: how do I add my backed-up emails without deleting the new ones?

Hello all, Newcomer here. My HDD died and I had to install a new one. I was able to recover my Thunderbird profile files from the HDD that failed. I have installed the latest version of Thunderbird and configured it with my hotmail account without any problems. I wanted to use the ImportExportTools add-on to add my previous emails and folder structure but, apparently, this add-on is no longer supported in this latest Thunderbird version and I'm unable to find any other tool for the job. I found a guide that shows how to manually copy and paste the old profile, but I'm worried that doing this will delete the messages that I've already downloaded from the server. So, in short: how do I add my backed-up emails without deleting the new ones?

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You can copy the recovered mbox files to the Mail > Local Folders location of the current profile, then relaunch Thunderbird. The mbox files with then appear as folders under the Local Folders account showing the messages contained in them.

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You can copy the recovered mbox files to the Mail > Local Folders location of the current profile, then relaunch Thunderbird. The mbox files with then appear as folders under the Local Folders account showing the messages contained in them.