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I gave up on Outlook after a zillion years using it. When I reset my O/S (win11) I had to reinstall Outlook from Office, all paid up and legal. Nothing but problems trying to get my backed up PST file from previous Outlook. System kept trying to get me to subscribe to Windows 365 crap. I had standalone 2024 version of office. When I installed Thunderbird (I have it on laptops and other computers), I entered my email and voila, in about 1 minute I was sending and receiving emails. I had spent 6 hours on Outlook, even using AI (Copilot) to help me. I was SO IMPRESSED, that for once I donated to Thunderbird, $30 CAD.

Now, I used Mailstore to get my pst file, something I could NOT GET OUTLOOK to do, and have it available to export to Thunderbird, or for TBird to IMPORT from the pst. Neither one worked, telling me that TBird didn't have a profile for the transfer, or some such notation.

Any help would be appreciated. Like many of you, my whole communication life is in those emails (I have about 40 folders where I saved stuff).

I just bought a new computer. I would like to move my emails from my old computer to my new computer. I downloaded Thunderbird and I tried setting up my emails on my new computer, but it only took the emails that were in my in box on my 'server.' I also had subfolders in my inbox with emails in them, and none of the subfolders or emails in the subfolders moved over.

My email provider is Shaw, and my old computer I used the pop 3 format. On the new computer I'm using the IMAP format.

I have just watched the video on the support page - Move Thunderbird data to a new computer. I don't know if this is something I should do....is it my only choice....or is there something you can suggest.

I have a comcast.net account but I use the Thunderbird app. How much trouble am I going to have moving to the Yahoo.mail for COMCAST? Will I have any extra steps that I will have to do. I am very apprehensive about this move.

2 possibly related issues. Environment Win10 latest Thunderbird version eMail server is google I was moving a large number of folders from a POP account to a new IMAP account. Something bad happened and Thunderbird died without an error message. When I restarted I found a lot of the POP folders had not transferred and there is a lock symbol on the POP account and I can not open it to show what is in it. Question 1: what does the lock symbol designate and how do I unlock the account. Question 2: are the missing folders gone? I realize that I probably need to solve #1 first. -- bill

I am importing all of my thunderbird data from an installation on an old laptop to a new thunderbird installation on a new laptop. I used the export tool on the old machine and the import tool on the new machine and every installation option fails. On the old machine I have tried copying the files and folder to the new machine and it fails, I have created a zip file (5MB) on the old machine and copied to the new machine and it fails (Not using the Zip tool that is limited to 2MB). I think I have tried every combination. The new installation is able to send and receive messages.

Ladies and Gentlemen

Please how do I export my Mozilla to my Chromebook. I have been directed to find a QR code at Menu\Tools\Export for Mobile, but there is no "Export for Mobile" tab in my Mozilla

So how do I export the whole lot to my chromebook, please?

Rgds, Tim

I have a Thunderbird account on my private laptop and need to move certain files and address labels to Thunderbirds on a new laptop. Can you please advise how this can be done or if it not possible to copy individual folders. Thank you.

I just opened my Thunderbird e-mail account, did thunderbid only access emails from my sbcglobal account email account or did TB download the the 100,000+ SBCglobal emails to a thunderbird file that I can continure to access?. I believe that AT&T is going to delete my sbcglobal email account as I have canceled my AT&T internet service. I see sbcglobal messages in thunderbird that go back to 2008 that I would like to read again. Will these messages disapper when AT&T disables the SBCglobal email account.

Not sure how to explain this but...

I was using Bluehost, and they somehow screwed up my website (my email was attached to my domain). I switched domains today and when I restarted Thunderbird, all my previous emails disappeared. I'm not sure why they didn't stay on the "server" and I don't know how to get them back now that I've swtiched from Bluehost.

I still have access to my emails on my phone (thru gmail, not thunderbird, but it's NOT a gmail / Google Workspace email).

Is there a way for me to retrieve these messages? I'm on a mac, btw.

I have switch to Linux Mint. My laptop with window 10 cannot go to Window 11. I therefore am retiring this laptop and gone to Linux Mint on a Mac machine. I have Thunderbird as my email. I have not been successful sending my emails to this new system. I downloaded Thunderbird on the new machine but cannot get my emails

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 am trying to copy my emails from outlook 2021 to Fastmail. I had thunderbird recommended as well as DRS to convert the files to mbox. This I have successfully done. However when I open the location of the converted emails in thuderbird it says there is no files there. See two differing views in the attached screenshot . Any help would be most welcome.

I have a complex issue I think. The forums didn't have any answers for my questions. I need to leave Xfinity my email accounts are Xfinity servers but I use Outlook. My email accounts all have "comcast.net". I want to transfer each of my email accounts to Thunderbird. Wouldn't I have change to "thunderbird.net accounts and how would I do that, when the set up new account require my comcast.net email. I am confused. I just tested one account set up in Thunderbird, and it brought over all of my emails, but I won't be able to use "comcast.net once I leave Xfinity. What should I do to keep my old emails? Do I need to change email addresses? Please help.

I bought a new PC and wanted to import messages from different backups I've made over the years. I always copied the whole Thunderbird profile folder.

No matter which profile backup I want to import, I get an error. I always choose to import just the messages.

The latest profile I wanted to use was just 2 weeks old.

I always get this message. What do I need to do to successfully import the messages?

So I just purchased a new computer to accommodate Windows 11. I reinstalled TB and wanted to retrieve all of my old local folders from my old account. I understand this can be done because TB stores these local folders. I keep these folders for account and billing information. I'm not sure how to go about restoring these folders and need help! The information is also stored....I believe on my external hard drive and my cloud storage. But I think the easiest way to get these folders back is through TB. Any help would be so greatly appreciated!

Michael....

I am new and need to set up new email accounts via Thunderbird but I get this error message and don't know how to move forward. I have Outlook on Windows 11 system. I have 4 email accounts I want to transfer to new Thunderbird emails. Please help me, I have some skills but not completely tech savvy.

I want to move my local folders from thunderbird laptop to android thunderbird Maybe if I could find the profile location for thunderbird android it might help, but where is it? The thunderbird android seems really lacking in access to configure it ... all over the search engine I find "how to import data and settings into android thunderbird" but every one of these references is actually just import settings, NO DATA IMPORT AVAILABLE that I can find.