Transfer of Thunderbird emails to a Chromebook
I have used Thunderbird for many years and have over 11 years of emails on my Linux laptop. I'm moving to a Chromebook and have installed Thunderbird on it. It is working fine. I only want to transferr about a years emails to my new machine so the "folder transfer " mention is not good. I have tried the import / export method but every time I select a group of emails of about a year the resultant zip file is about 10 gbyts and the import will not work. Thank you for any assistance you may give
Paul
I have used Thunderbird for many years and have over 11 years of emails on my Linux laptop. I'm moving to a Chromebook and have installed Thunderbird on it. It is working fine. I only want to transferr about a years emails to my new machine so the "folder transfer " mention is not good. I have tried the import / export method but every time I select a group of emails of about a year the resultant zip file is about 10 gbyts and the import will not work.
Thank you for any assistance you may give
Paul
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- install importeporttools NG addon, then select desired messages, rightclick and select export messages as mbox. On the chromebook, either installl the same addon there, highlight Local Folders, rightclick and select import mbox
- OR, create new folder, select desired messages, rightclick, select copy to the new folder. exit thunderbird and copy the file and pasted into the mail\LocalFolders of the chromebook and start thunderbird
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