Thunderbird - move folders from old profile to new one
Running Thunderbird V130.0.2 64-bit on Win 11 Pro. I have several profiles, mostly on Gmail. Yesterday I had to change all of my email passwords. I was able to change passwords on Thunderbird for all but one of the Gmail accounts. I still don't understand why I had this issue with one Gmail account but not 2 others. Eventually I deleted the profile in question and created a new profile (same Gmail email address / account).
Which was fine but in doing this I lost my local email folders. I have all of the email folders and I tried just moving them from old profile to new one. This worked fine for local folders (at least the ones I tried) but not for nested folders. The support I've found so far tells me how to move the entire profile, but that doesn't work (I run into the same password problem as I did yesterday).
Is there a way to tell Thunderbird about these nested local email folders so they will be found upon Thunderbird startup? I haven't found it yet.
My local email folders are found here: C:\Users\<Windows Account>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Thunderbird profile>\Mail\Local Folders
Thanks in advance.
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I suggest doing this with windows file explorer, assuming you use windows. - exit thunderbird - copy the mail\Local folders from old profile to same location on new profile - restart thunderbird
I omitted instructions on locating profiles, as your post indicates you are comfortable working at the file level.
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I suggest doing this with windows file explorer, assuming you use windows. - exit thunderbird - copy the mail\Local folders from old profile to same location on new profile - restart thunderbird
I omitted instructions on locating profiles, as your post indicates you are comfortable working at the file level.
@david
Wow! That worked. I didn't think to try copying the entire Local folder over. I started with one nested mail folder and when it didn't work figured I was in trouble.
I also realized that I lost my Address book in this entire mess. I see 3 files in the new profile: abook.sqlite abook.sqlite-shm abook.sqlite-wal
But I see 6 files in the old (original) profile abook.mab.bak abook.sqlite abook.sqlite-shm abook.sqlite-wal abook.v2.sqlite abook.v3.sqlite
I've made the perhaps illogical leap that abook is my address book. Any ideas on which files to copy from the original profile to the new one?
These are both in the folder: C:\Users\<Windows Account>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Thunderbird profile>
ksglasser said
I also realized that I lost my Address book in this entire mess. I see 3 files in the new profile: abook.sqlite abook.sqlite-shm abook.sqlite-wal
But I see 6 files in the old (original) profile abook.mab.bak abook.sqlite abook.sqlite-shm abook.sqlite-wal abook.v2.sqlite abook.v3.sqlite
Copy/paste all the files, overwriting the new ones.
@Ed, That solved it. Turns out that these 2 files were exactly the same abook.sqlite-shm abook.sqlite-wal (I checked using WinMerge app.)
I have 2 email address lists and I have a feeling that the other files have something to do with that? Whatever - I now have my address book back.
Only strange thing was that I noticed that one email address didn't come over to the address book at all. And one of the email address lists was missing 2 addresses (which included the email that was no longer in the address book at all). I've fixed that. Could there be other missing email addresses? Yes and I guess I'll find them along the way.
Again thanks very much for your suggestion.
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