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Cpying older calendars to a new installation doesn't work

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Hi, I was running Thunderbird on windows 10 before I had to do a system reset, so all software has been wiped out from the disk. After reinstalling thunderbird I wanted to recover the previous calendars, so I copied the backed up files within the 'calendar-data' directory to the calendar-data directory in the new install and moved the new files in a directory. (see attached image) Before doing this I had already created some new calendars in the new installation.

Nevertheless, despite the files have been moved and the older ones substituted them, I keep seeing the newly created calendars but NOT the older ones (which are the ones that interest me) and I believe I should not see the newly created ones. Why is this happening? Why is Thunderbird still showing me the new calendas when the files aren't accessible anymore??? Regards

Hi, I was running Thunderbird on windows 10 before I had to do a system reset, so all software has been wiped out from the disk. After reinstalling thunderbird I wanted to recover the previous calendars, so I copied the backed up files within the 'calendar-data' directory to the calendar-data directory in the new install and moved the new files in a directory. (see attached image) Before doing this I had already created some new calendars in the new installation. Nevertheless, despite the files have been moved and the older ones substituted them, I keep seeing the newly created calendars but NOT the older ones (which are the ones that interest me) and I believe I should not see the newly created ones. Why is this happening? Why is Thunderbird still showing me the new calendas when the files aren't accessible anymore??? Regards
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Did you copy the files over when TB was running? If so, restart.

If TB wasn't running, close TB > move the old calendar folder and files out of the profile folder > copy the backed-up files > restart.

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Hi, I followed your instructions but nothing changed (when you say 'restart' I guess you refer to TB only)

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Hi, I followed your instructions but nothing changed (when you say 'restart' I guess you refer to TB only)

Yes. Try importing instead:

Calendar page > Tools on the top menu > Import > Import from a file > choose the local.sqlite file.

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