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failed Thunderbird profile import from Postbox -- NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE

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larryakers
larryakers

With a new Thunderbird installation on Windows 10 Pro, I attempted to import my profile data from a Postbox on another machine. The process failed, citing two errors (see attached screen shot), EmptyDatabase Error: "blocklists/addons-bloomfilters" has not been synced yet Uncaught NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE: Component returned failure code: 0X805200010

The profile being imported is pretty large -- around 20Gb, so I wonder whether I have surpassed some capacity limit. I was doing this via the Import Tool on the Tools menu.

Porting my legacy mail folders is crucial. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

With a new Thunderbird installation on Windows 10 Pro, I attempted to import my profile data from a Postbox on another machine. The process failed, citing two errors (see attached screen shot), EmptyDatabase Error: "blocklists/addons-bloomfilters" has not been synced yet Uncaught NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE: Component returned failure code: 0X805200010 The profile being imported is pretty large -- around 20Gb, so I wonder whether I have surpassed some capacity limit. I was doing this via the Import Tool on the Tools menu. Porting my legacy mail folders is crucial. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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david
david
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Try this: First, remove all addons as some may not work. Or at least disable them

  1. start postbox
  2. click help>troubleshootinginformation
  3. scroll to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder'
  4. exit postbox - you should now be in the profile folder. You can verify that by looking to see if abook.sqlite is there.
  5. copy profile content to external media
  6. install thunderbird , downloaded from thunderbird.net
  7. start thunderbird
  8. click help>troubleshootinginformation
  9. scroll to 'profile folder' and click 'open folder'
  10. exit thunderbird
  11. delete everthing there
  12. now, paste contents of exported profile
  13. if there is a compatibility.ini file, delete it
  14. restart thunderbird
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