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Struggling to restore emails and address books using mozbackup

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Wayne Mery replied
knibbo2004
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I recently had to re-install Thunderbird due to what I suspect was a disc corruption that caused it to stop working. The re-install is completed and it's up and running, and I'm trying to restore all my old emails and addresses from a recent backup file created with Mozbackup. Whilst the restore function within Mozbackup seems to run, none of the emails or address are restored when it's done.

I recently had to re-install Thunderbird due to what I suspect was a disc corruption that caused it to stop working. The re-install is completed and it's up and running, and I'm trying to restore all my old emails and addresses from a recent backup file created with Mozbackup. Whilst the restore function within Mozbackup seems to run, none of the emails or address are restored when it's done.

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Wayne Mery
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Mozbackup has stopped working long ago, sorry. See http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php

I believe I heard that the backup is just a zip file. You might try using the mozbackup file as a zip and work directly with the files.