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Tbird E-mail storage locations

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office809
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Using Firefox on my Win10-Pro PC and TBird as my e-mail client, I need really simple instructions on two installation issues:

1) Will TBird let me install TBird in the disk partition of my choice (where Firefox is presently installed) and

2) Can TBird be set up to BOTH let me simultaneously download all e-mail documents to my local PC while letting the e-mail documents remain on the e-mail server (where they are now)?

Please keep the guidance simple and easy to follow as I don't see well reading from a display screen any more and as I have never understood the complexities of Win10-Pro at all well. I go back to IBM PC One days and MS-DOS and understood Win7-Pro fairly well but Win10-Pro simply confuses me because of its many buried options. Thanks, in advance, for guidance, instructions, etc.

Using Firefox on my Win10-Pro PC and TBird as my e-mail client, I need really simple instructions on two installation issues: 1) Will TBird let me install TBird in the disk partition of my choice (where Firefox is presently installed) and 2) Can TBird be set up to BOTH let me simultaneously download all e-mail documents to my local PC while letting the e-mail documents remain on the e-mail server (where they are now)? Please keep the guidance simple and easy to follow as I don't see well reading from a display screen any more and as I have never understood the complexities of Win10-Pro at all well. I go back to IBM PC One days and MS-DOS and understood Win7-Pro fairly well but Win10-Pro simply confuses me because of its many buried options. Thanks, in advance, for guidance, instructions, etc.

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Lin
Lin
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Question #1: Yes. When you run the installer (that you downloaded from <https://www.thunderbird.net/> (I don't know about the version from the Microsoft Store), when you choose "Custom Install" you are presented with the opportunity to install the program to location you want. Your personal Profile, that is, where the actual email and settings are stored, will default to <C:\Users\"your Windows Profile"\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird>. That that can be changed after the fact.

Question #2: When you set up your email account in Thunderbird, you can choose to use IMAP. IMAP mirrors what's on the server with your local computer and can be accessed by multiple devices. What you see in Thunderbird reflects what's on the server. A message will exist both locally and on the server until you delete it in one place or the other, in which case will be deleted in all locations.

Thunderbird also supports Local Folders for those things you want to keep locally but not on the server.

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