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#Transferring thunderbird email to new computer windows#
From your Thunderbird profile folder in Windows Explorer File Browser Finder, go up three levels go up two levels open the Go menu and select Enclosing Folder two times.Your Thunderbird profile folder will open in Windows Explorer File Browser Finder. Locate the "Profile Folder" entry, then click Open Folder Open Directory Show in Finder.Open the Help menu and select Troubleshooting Information. Click the menu button, then click Help and select Troubleshooting Information.Connect a device for data transfer, either a local one such as a USB flash drive, or a remote storage drive.Thunderbird's new installation will use the already existing data. you do it at your own risk.Note: If you have used the Profile Manager on your source computer to store your Thunderbird profile folder in a custom location into a remote storage drive, create a new profile on your destination computer and set that profile to use the same location. Hopefully, you will have all your Windows Thunderbird stuff where you need it on your New Thunderbird, find the original Profile that you saved ( lr1圆xvf.default )Ĭopy and paste them into the space left by the deleted ones above. then hover on “Help” then click on “ Troubleshooting Information”.Ī new page will open entitled fault ( not those actual letter combinations, but similar)Ĭopy them to a new folder ( suggest “new Tbird MAIL) on your USB memory stick. Now go to your NEWLY INSTALLED THUNDERBIRD client on your New Computer/HDD or your Linux (mint 19.1) Thunderbird. otherwise it should show your email client)) find the “ Profile Directory” and next to that is Open Directory (Local drive) click on the words Open DirectoryĪ new page will open entitled lr1圆xvf.default ( not those actual letter combinations, but similar)įind the folder “ Mail” and click on it to open it. then hover on “Help” then click on “ Troubleshooting Information”.Ī new page will open with a blue column Entitled “ Application Basics”. Locate the three horizontal bars at the right hand side of the top bar( this is the “Menu” Icon ) on your "in use" original Computer/Laptop This instructorial assumes that you are transferring FROM an already running, Thunderbird, on a Windows Operating SystemĪnd you wish to transfer your saved emails etc to a NEW INSTALL, NEW COPY, OF THUNDERBIRD ON LINUX, OR WHATEVER OPERATING SYSTEM YOU ARE INTENDING TO BE USING.
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Transfer Thunderbird from Old Computer/HDD on Windows to New Computer/HDD on Linux (Mint 19.1) may work on other distros.