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How to synchronise Thunderbird between several computers

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mjt5
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I've been trying to find a way of synchronising Thunderbird data, principally addressbooks, messages and calendar data, between several PCs. I've tried to do this with a file synchronisation program called Allway Sync but it's become clear it's not just a case of copying changed data between the profiles of the different systems.

It seems the only way to do it is by exporting the profile data to a zip file then importing it to the other systems. That would be a rather clunky solution but I could live with it. However the size of the profile folder on my main workstation is now around 5GB so that doesn't appear to be possible.

I should be extremely grateful for any suggestions on how to accomplish the synchronisation if it is at all possible.

My main workstation is running Windows 7 Professional SP1. The others are running Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Professional

I've been trying to find a way of synchronising Thunderbird data, principally addressbooks, messages and calendar data, between several PCs. I've tried to do this with a file synchronisation program called Allway Sync but it's become clear it's not just a case of copying changed data between the profiles of the different systems. It seems the only way to do it is by exporting the profile data to a zip file then importing it to the other systems. That would be a rather clunky solution but I could live with it. However the size of the profile folder on my main workstation is now around 5GB so that doesn't appear to be possible. I should be extremely grateful for any suggestions on how to accomplish the synchronisation if it is at all possible. My main workstation is running Windows 7 Professional SP1. The others are running Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Professional

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christ1
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Thunderbird can not (yet) sync the profile across multiple devices. So for the time being you can sync emails via an IMAP server, contacts via a CardDAV server, and calendar via a CalDAV server. As an example, all of that can be done with a Gmail account. There are certainly other email providers capable of doing that as well

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