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HI I have many folders in my inbox on TB and some I don't want loaded each time I open TB (they are old files that I don't need day to day but may need sometime) What is the best way to take these off TB whilst being able to import them to TB if I need them later. Thanks. Mark

I started using Netscape Email in 1996. Moved to Tbird. I have archived emails by year going back to 1996 on my old desktop PC (Win 10). I bought a new PC (Win 11) and installed Tbird. I entered my email account info into Tbird and started receiving emails. I then followed the instructions for moving the Tbird emails from the old computer to the new. (I went to Troubleshooting Info on the old computer, opened the Profile Folder, went up to the Thunderbird folder, copied it to an external hard drive, and pasted it in the same place on the new computer.)

I opened Tbird, the archives folders do not show up. I looked in the Profile Folder, and I have three profiles. (I tried pasting twice.) A picture is attached. The old computer only shows the top one (59t8...).

How do I get my archived folders back, or how do I have Tbird on the new computer use the profile on the old one?

Thanks, - Andy

I have a situation where i have Computer A, running win 7 pro, having thunderbird using pop3. On there I can see all my old emails going back to 2007. I now have Computer B, Win11 pro, running Zimbra with imap. I also have outlook. I am still using the same email address Is there a way I can copy my old emails from Computer A to Computer B? I have the whole pop3 thunderbird folder on a usb drive.

Is it possible to use Thunderbird's export function to export emails sent/received between two dates on my desktop and then import that onto the work laptop? I need to update work's new laptop and only need to do it between two dates.

Hello -

Thanks so much for your help :).

I followed the instructions to migrate my Thunderbird from an old Mac to a new Mac. I first did it successfully back in July, but then for reasons not worth going into I continued to use the old Mac.

I now am going to start using the new Mac, and have 6 months worth of new email folders etc that I want on the new Mac.

I followed the same method, but none of the new information is showing up, and I can't imagine why - any thoughts?

Thanks again!!!!

Best,

Kathryn

I'm having trouble taking the contents of TBird and IMAP-ing it to a Gmail account (~60,000 messages). I have added the Gmail account as per the instructions on these forums including Advanced Config for IMAP and OAuth2, but no messages appear in GMail. Am I missing something obvious? Do both accounts have to be the same UserID? I don't want to mistakenly transfer the contents of an empty GMail account to the TBird account wiping out 20 years of messages. (I do have exports of all messages, btw) I'd be very grateful for any breadcrumbs that point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance. aj

Because of a software glitch unrelated to this issue, Apple tech wiped my hard drive. When I reinstalled Thunderbird and re-added my earthlink account, the 10+ folders I had created under the Inbox were not there. Where did they go and can I recover them?

Dear All,

I am going to save my maild from IMAP INBOX.sbd to my new PC's Local folder. What is the most simple way to do it? I have Thunderbird 128.5.2esr and in my new PC there is ImportExportTools NG addon installed.

Thanks Peter .

I tried to create what I thought would be a backup of my local folders in Thunderbird on a new drive. Instead everything is now completely gone. My last backup was in July so I'm good up to that point, but is there anyway to get back the 5 months of saved emails? I'm guessing not and I realize I should have done a backup before changing anything. I thought I was creating a mirror image outside of Thunderbird. Thanks for any help

My computer had to be reinstalled from scratch. Old messages are in Thunderbird2022, Thunderbird 2023 and Thunderbird2024 folders. They were each year's local folders saving place, regularly copied for backup. Each of them include lots of folders and their subfolders of type .sbd and .mozmsgs and files of type .msf and same names without any extension.

Now I need to get these messages active again, but there seems to be no choice or tool for importing them. Nothing I tried helps. I browsed some documents and found an unknown feature "profile", which I have never used. Are my old messages now somehow locked because of this and is there a way to bypass it or is the only option now to switch for example to a Microsoft mail product to get the messages?

Under "settings" I select "Export to mobile". This pops up a page that should let me select what to export, but there is nothing to select there.

It would be nice ti use Android for mobile. Some can help?

Gtnx Ruud Uphoff

I have Thunderbird running successfully on an iMac (Intel), running Catalina 10.15.7. With Matt's help, I got Thunderbird running on a new iMac M4 running Sequoia 15.1.1. Emails are correct in the new Inbox, but the Local Folders from the old iMac are not duplicated on the new M4 iMac. Tried using the Import function in T-bird but it said that Import failed unexpectedly. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Have been unable to open Thunderbird for a long time. Have tried everything I can think of and that suggested by the forum. I now wish to move my address to another provider. How can I do this?

Unfortunately, I had to delete and reinstall all the softwear on my imac and as a result I have lost all my e-mails in the local folders on Thunderbird. Is it possible to get these back again as they might be saved on the Thunderbird servers ? Your help and advice will be much appreciated. Many thanks, John

I have just purchased a new laptop and installed Thunderbird which I have been using for a few years on my old PC. I want to transfer my address books and email files help on the old PC to the new laptop, but I'm experiencing real problems. Could you please advise? Thanks