#COPY THUNDERBIRD MAIL TO NEW COMPUTER PC#
I got the Roaming screen open in the PC and closed Th-Bird, then I copied the new default profile (5.91 GB) off the Caddy and pasted it into the default profile on the new PC Which takes you to the ''Roaming'' folder with the ''Thunderbird'' folder highlighted/selected.
To move your data, '''copy your profile folder''' to the equivalent location on your destination computer.įrom your Thunderbird profile folder, '''go up three levels'''. Please confirm that you are looking at that folder and not any other and that we are on the same page as far as the profile folder is concerned. The folder will also be large in size because it contains your years old emails. That weirdly named folder is the actual profile folder whose contents are what need to be copied to the new Thunderbird profile. You will see at least one weirdly named folder inside, with eight random characters making the first part of it, followed by a period and some readable name afterwards, for example fault. Since you already copied the entire Thunderbird folder from the old PC's Roaming folder to the Caddy, connect the caddy to the new PC, open the Thunderbird folder that it contains then open the Profiles folder inside it. Now, before we proceed any further, kindly point out which terms I used that you don't understand so that I can explain better. The solution I gave in the other thread to which I referred you to skips the Roaming\Thunderbird folder altogether and focuses only on the contents of the profile folder itself. I find those directions to be unnecessarily complicated, because ALL you need to transfer to the new PC are the contents of the profile folder itself, which opens when you go to Help > Troubleshooting Information > Open Folder as described in steps 1, 2 and 3. Which takes you to the Roaming folder with the Thunderbird folder highlighted/selected.
To move your data, copy your profile folder to the equivalent location on your destination computer.įrom your Thunderbird profile folder, go up three levels. On the page with the video and instructions you followed, the opening paragraph says I understand where the confusion comes from.
#COPY THUNDERBIRD MAIL TO NEW COMPUTER PRO#
I'll have to clear it with CCleaner Pro and reinstall it. Then, to get the data onto the new PC I connect the Caddy drive to that and transfer the Profile Folder from the Caddy Drive to the new PC - exactly where?ĭamn, now I've erased the default profile in the new PC and so it won't start up. I'm using an old hard drive in a powered caddy as my back up area, so do I now copy all of the content of the Profile Sub folder from the old PC into the Profile folder in Thunderbird on the caddy drive? This will then be my backup of the required data? Is this starting from the original PC? If so then I have actioned everything in your first paragraph - but now the terms you use are strange to me. Stans, I'm afraid I'm a bit confused with this. Read this answer in context 👍 0 All Replies (19) Thanks for the help, your talking me through it helped me to see what was needed. It flashed an address book error of some sort but then opened up and my old mail for the 3 addresses with all the old mail slowly appeared - What a Relief! Then I tried to start Thunderbird, it took longer than I expected, but that made me hopeful as I haven't been able to run it successfully for about 2 weeks. Then I replaced it with the copy of the Thunderbird Folder from the old PC. I copied the Thunderbird Folder from Roaming on the Old PC (after closing Thunderbird there), connected the Back up Drive to the new PC and used the Users/jreed/AppData/Roaming path in the new PC Drive to find the "Thunderbird" Folder and delete it. This time I figured that if i went half way between the initial instructions and your much more detailed version I would be able to visualise the process and overcome not being able to get Thunderbird to run (so i couldn't get to the Help and troubleshooting buttons). Hi Stans - I had to give up on this for sometime to keep the rest of my life moving, but following our 53rd Wedding Anniversary yesterday I sat down again this evening for a determined attempt to succeed.
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