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Thunderbird migration

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Roger Gregory
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I bought a new computer. How do I move all my emails & address book over to it?

I bought a new computer. How do I move all my emails & address book over to it?

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Stans
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On your old computer, Quit Thunderbird and confirm that it's not running in the background, then go to the %AppData% folder. Copy the Thunderbird folder located here, to an external drive.

On your new computer, Quit Thunderbird and go to the %AppData% folder. Delete or rename the existing Thunderbird folder, then copy the one in the external drive to this location. Launch Thunderbird.

See Profiles - Where Thunderbird stores your messages and other user data for more info about the %AppData%\Thunderbird folder.