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I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing
thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Drew |
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Drew wrote:
I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Are you using IMAP to connect to the e-mail server(s)? If so, a newly installed e-mail client also using IMAP will see whatever you have up on the server. This is another advantage of IMAP: after recovery or for new client installs, the client has all the e-mails that are up on the server. IMAP is designed to be accessed by multiple clients with all of them synchronizing their content with the server, and some of those clients might be making a first-time connection to that server. With IMAP, the server is your backup. That won't carry over your customizations of Thunderbird. For that, you need to copy over your profile folder. Folks in the Thunderbird support newsgroup would know how to do that (or you do a search beforehand, like http://www.bing.com/search?q=thunder...ofile%20folder or http://www.bing.com/search?q=thunder...ate%20profile). The Thunderbird group is on Mozilla's NNTP server, so connect your NNTP client to news.mozilla.org (no login required) and go to the mozilla.thunderbird.support newsgroup. |
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"Drew" wrote in message
... I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Put this on both machines. MozBackup http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ After you backup TB on the Win7 machine, copy the backup folder to the new machine and do a restore. TB should look identical to the original. -- ~Bruce |
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On 9/28/2014 7:03 AM, Drew wrote:
I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Drew Questions about Thunderbird are best asked at the mozilla.support.thunderbird newsgroup on the news.mozilla.org server. Access to the server is free and does not require a login or password. There are other newsgroups for Mozilla-based applications on the news.mozilla.org server. See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/forums/ for a list. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html. |
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Drew wrote:
I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Drew Install Thunderbird on the new PC. Thunderbird has a "Profile Manager". The new (empty) Profile will be assigned an eight character random name, and it will be identified as "Default". If you copy the entire random-named-profile from the old machine, put it in the same profile folder, at the same level as the empty profile on the new install, you'll have two profiles to work with. By editing the profiles.ini file, you can tell Thunderbird there is more than one profile. So you might have two folders, BX56Q7X8 ABCD1234 and they'd then be at the same level. And easier to find later. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...tiple-profiles "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb When I'd tried this stuff, I didn't always find the documentation all that clear, but I hope that's enough to get you started. ******* This is the "profiles.ini" file on my current (WinXP) C:. I seem to remember having this file contain more than one profile, but I don't know which OS install that is on. C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserName\Application Data\Thunderbird\profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/1234abcd.default On my Windows 8 disk, this is the setup. Don't know how this got this way. I think this is the copied profile, stored in my Downloads folder (where I store a lot of junk). Y:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\pr ofiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=0 [Profile0] Name=Default User IsRelative=0 Path=C:\Users\MyUserName\Downloads\1234abcd.defaul t Default=1 The "IsRelative" is 0, if you specify an absolute path for the profile folder. And I can't figure out what the StartWithLastProfile parameter does there. The first configuration is a "non-copied" setup, while the second one is a "copied" setup. I don't know if that was needed to get the Profile Manager started, or why they're different. As far as I can remember, right now, both older and newer Thunderbirds start, without showing any Profile Manager selection process. Just the one profile, selected and used, is evident. OK, this one is from C: on my Windows 7 laptop, with copied profile. (I keep the .vhd backup file from 2012 on my current computer, for easy access with 7ZIP. So I didn't have to dig out the laptop to get this.) C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\pr ofiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 --- likely to make a difference... [Profile0] Name=default --- assigned default by installer IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/5678efgh.default --- empty one (as installed) [Profile1] Name=Firstname Lastname --- my imported profile IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/1234abcd.default --- folder stored next to empty one Default=1 --- maybe this is how it keeps track? It's all very confusing, and you'll either get to fix this via the Profile Manager, or, with Notepad. It might be faster to just edit yourself a profiles.ini to lash it together. HTH, Paul |
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On 09/28/2014 10:03 AM, Drew wrote:
I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Drew I simply load Thunderbird, and don't run it. Then in C:\user\name\appdata (a hidden directory) there is a Thunderbird folder. Copy that entire folder to the new machine, same location being win7 & 8 directories are similar. Run thunderbird and you'll have all your files and folders and setup and extensions. I never miss a beat every time I reload. Not that this is significant or true, but that profile directory is typically 8 chars .default, and my first name initial + last name just happen to be 8 chars. So I renamed it bwhatever.default years back. So I like to keep that config. A vanity thing I guess. Thus this works to not only keep that identity but all the data. |
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Bruce Hagen wrote:
"Drew" wrote in message ... I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Put this on both machines. MozBackup http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ After you backup TB on the Win7 machine, copy the backup folder to the new machine and do a restore. TB should look identical to the original. +1 -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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On 29/09/2014 07:14, . . .winston wrote:
Bruce Hagen wrote: "Drew" wrote in message ... I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Put this on both machines. MozBackup http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ After you backup TB on the Win7 machine, copy the backup folder to the new machine and do a restore. TB should look identical to the original. +1 +1 from me |
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I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird
onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Drew Go to Mozilla newsgroup. news.mozilla.org mozilla.support.thunderbird and ask there. they know how to do this. |
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On 29/09/2014 18:36, Bob H wrote:
On 29/09/2014 07:14, . . .winston wrote: Bruce Hagen wrote: "Drew" wrote in message ... I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Put this on both machines. MozBackup http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ After you backup TB on the Win7 machine, copy the backup folder to the new machine and do a restore. TB should look identical to the original. +1 +1 from me +1 And another one |
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Drew wrote: I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Drew This is what I have done. Copy the the thunderbird folder C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird from windows 7 to windows 8.1 BEFORE installing thunderbird. If you then install Thunderbird it will be identical to your windows 7 HS |
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On 10/1/2014 3:12 AM, HS wrote:
Drew wrote: I have purchased a new pc with win8.1 and I will be installing thunderbird onto it. I currently have a win7 pc with my existing thunderbird on it. Is there a easy way to move it from one to the other? Since I will be wiping this system before selling it I want to be able to save all the e-mails that I currently have. Any help would be appreciated as always. Drew This is what I have done. Copy the the thunderbird folder C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird from windows 7 to windows 8.1 BEFORE installing thunderbird. If you then install Thunderbird it will be identical to your windows 7 HS I would recommend you do the opposite. Move the Thunderbird folder after you install Thunderbird. With different operating systems and version Thunderbird has moved the working folder around. By loading Thunderbird first you can see where the new install placed its working folder, and then copy the old folder to the same place as the new. |
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| And I can't figure out what the StartWithLastProfile parameter
| does there. I'd guess that's probably 1 or 0, with 0 meaning that TBird will always open to the default profile and 1 meaning it will open to whatever profile you used last. Your method seems like an awfully lot of work and bloat for no benefit if one can just put the old profile folder into the new location. If one can't find out what the location should be, TBird could be installed and then uninstalled to find where the profile folders are. It's really a shame that they've made such a convoluted mess of it all. I use OE and it's similar. One has to learn obscure tricks in order to have a dependable backup. .....So few people can figure it out. ....So they get frustrated and sign up for gmail. It's really very strange. Browser bookmarks and email are arguably the most common things to need backup, yet software makers haven't provided a simple, clear way to do either. And if they're going to insist on having settings per-user, whether one wants that or not, they could at least be consistent and put them in a subfolder of My Documents, where they at least *might* get backed up. |
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Mayayana wrote:
| And I can't figure out what the StartWithLastProfile parameter | does there. I'd guess that's probably 1 or 0, with 0 meaning that TBird will always open to the default profile and 1 meaning it will open to whatever profile you used last. Your method seems like an awfully lot of work and bloat for no benefit if one can just put the old profile folder into the new location. If one can't find out what the location should be, TBird could be installed and then uninstalled to find where the profile folders are. It's really a shame that they've made such a convoluted mess of it all. I use OE and it's similar. One has to learn obscure tricks in order to have a dependable backup. ....So few people can figure it out. ....So they get frustrated and sign up for gmail. It's really very strange. Browser bookmarks and email are arguably the most common things to need backup, yet software makers haven't provided a simple, clear way to do either. And if they're going to insist on having settings per-user, whether one wants that or not, they could at least be consistent and put them in a subfolder of My Documents, where they at least *might* get backed up. I'm reporting a method I've used. I'm not familiar with "mozbackup". I agree the copying of a folder to an equivalent place on the new OS, before installing Thunderbird, is a clever and good idea for a test. As long as you copy the old profiles.ini file as well as the randomly named folder, the relative (versus absolute) addressing in there should work out. The reason I do it my way, the scenario is "I'll be trapped for several days in a particular OS", Thunderbird is already there, and I'm basically taking a temporary snapshot so I can read USENET with up-to-date threads. Paul |
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In message , Paul
writes I'm not familiar with "mozbackup". Mozbackup avoids having to know which profile to use etc, and simply 'works'. It's also supposed to work for Seamonkey (which I only briefly played with), but when I tried it, I recall that it didn't really seem to work properly. [Don't know about the other Mozilla products.] -- Ian |
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