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I had to open a new Thunderbird account after a hard drive replacement. I saved my profile to external HD. I transferred it to my Profiles folder but the new TB does not default to it. How do I get this to work ?

j'applique le mode d'emploi Phase 1 sur l'ancien PC phase 2 sur le nouveau PC mais arrivé à profiles je ne trouve plus roaming ni thunderbird alors impossible de continuer l'import

Hi!

I recently got Thunderbird (TB) re-installed in my new PC.

In the re-installed TB, certain mail threads are sort of compressed, so I cannot click and open older specific emails, or did not find the right method to do it. Also, Archive or Remove are the only two buttons active. The drop-down thread with Save As (and other options) has disappeared.

Can I still click and open specific emails in a thread in TB? If so, how do I do it? Am I missing something?

Can I still find the Save As option, to save email threads (as backup) outside TB, in my PC? If so, how do I do it?

Why are only some threads compressed? It seems to happen randomly. For example, the thread most recently active was compressed, along with some other, older threads.

All threads I refer to as compressed has a branching-like symbol to the left of the subject line. This symbol never appeared in my old TB. In my old TB there was never a problem archiving a thread outside TB.

Many thanks in advance!

Best, Stefan Andersson

Just build a new PC and moved my Thunderbird and Firefox settings to the new PC. I've done this a few times over the years and it usually works perfectly. However, this time after moving Thunderbird and starting downloading new mail, it is REALLY slow, taking 8-9 seconds to download each message.

I have always used the following locations to keep all the profile data: C:\mozilla.org\Users\Johnny\Thunderbird.slt C:\mozilla.org\Users\Johnny\Firefox.slt

When moving to a new machine, I install a fresh Thunderbird and Firefox, then copy over the entire folder C:\mozilla.org\Users\Johnny to the new machine. I then go and modify C:\Users\Johnny\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\profiles.ini and add a new profile block like this: [Profile2] Name=Johnny IsRelative=0 Path=C:\mozilla.org\Users\Johnny\Thunderbird.slt Default=1 When I brought up Thunderbird, everything looked normal. When I clicked on Get Messages, it first started downloading from my Comcast account, which normally does 2-3 messages per second. It was now taking 8-9 seconds per message. The next account it downloads from is Network Solutions and it is taking just as long for this account.

I've looked around in the TB settings and can't figure out what is happening. I haven't seen this issue with past migrations. Anyone have any idea what is going on?

Thank you!

I am working with Thunderbird 102.8.0 on Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy.

Maybe you don't need all that - I'm brand new to all this and don't know much at all! I don't understand, for ex. why it doesn't say "Cinnamon" up there, since that's what I'm using for Linux Mint, but anyway...

I use Protonmail, and have finally gotten the protonmail bridge to work with Thunderbird. I have exported my contacts from Protonmail's webmail as a vCard. I saved the card in my downloads folder and I have opened the document to make sure it isn't blank - it looks like everything is there.

When I go through the import steps in Thunderbird, though, nothing imports. I have tried several times, shut down TB, opened it again - nothing there.

Can anyone help? Thank you!

Hi my old PC crashed and I had to do a new windows install, but before that I saved all my old files, folders etc and presume Thunderbird email profiles on to it. I added the files back to the PC on same C drive once windows re-installed. Now how can I download Thunderbird and make it use the old Thunderbird email profiles on the PC at present please?

Hej Jeg følger fremgangsmåden i artiklen Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer, men har lidt (store) problemer. Først fungerede det slet ikke. Efter slet og ny installation på den nye maskine fik jeg mails og adressebog over, men kalender mangle bortset fra et enkelt fremtidigt møde. Efter forsøg på export og import (under Events og tasks) får jeg dannet en fin iCalendar (.ics) fil som jeg efterfølgende ikke kan importere fordi filen ikke indeholder importerbare el Jeg prøver så at gennemføre hele processen med Moving Thunderbird ... igen, og får som ventet spørgsmål om Overwrite existing ..., som jeg svarer ja til. Der overskrives data, men de nyests mails kommer ikke med og kalender mangler stadig. Adressebog stadig fin. Noget tyder på min Thunderbird klient kigger efter data et andet sted end processen tror. Når jeg kigger i Thunderbird Account settings peges der ned i ...Roaming/Thunderbird/Profiles/...., men nærmere kan jeg ikke komme det. Er der en måde jeg med sikkerhed kan slette al data i Thunderbird, og så prøve at gennemføre Move ... processen igen. Og hvis kalender stadig ikke kommer med over, hvordan får jeg så min dagbog tilbage fra 2009 over til den nye laptop ?? Venlig hilsen Johannes Elkjær Madsen

I am currently using IMAP. Rackspace hosts my email. I want to change ISP's. I understand that my Rackspace emails will disappear once I delete my Rackspace account and they will not be uploaded to the new ISP.

I need to have access to all my old emails and I don't care about the limitations of POP.

Before I make the move, can I switch from IMAP to POP and download all my emails? Will this retain the file structure - in particular, "inbox" and "sent"

If that works, I'll set up the new ISP for POP. Will new emails be appended to my exiting inbox and sent folders?

I am currently using Mozilla Thunderbird on my laptop. I am planning in using it as well on my Desktop. Is it possible to use the same email for both of my laptop and desktop?

Hello wise people of the internet,

I've just installed Thunderbird, which happily downloaded the last couple years worth of messages... and then stopped. I can't get it to pick up the rest, even though there's another fifteen years of email that I'd like to preserve on this computer. I tried repairing the folder: it flickers through the existing emails for a while, and maybe stretches the stop date another month or two back, but otherwise doesn't change anything.

I'd be very grateful for any suggestions! I'm truly just using this as a backup for my emails (I continue to read and send within the browser), so it's important to me to get it all here.

Thanks in advance!

Help! I tried to follow the migration instructions in Thunderbird support, but it didn't work and now I can't find any of my folders or emails. I need someone to help me through reconstructing this. I have all the profiles and email information, saved, I hope, but I appear to be doing something wrong. I would really prefer to do this over the phone, if that's possible. Sydney

Hi!

I recently got a new PC, with Thunderbird (TB) re-installed. The address book in my old TB was not migrated to TB in my new PC.

Is there a way to import the address book to my new TB?

Many thanks in advance for all help!

Best, Stefan Andersson

Hi!

I´ve bought a new PC. Now I need to access emails exported through EML from TB to a Folder outside TB. The relevant Folder is visible in my new PC. All separate emails are visible onscreen, but when I click on an email it doesn´t open. Instead, I am asked to open a new account. TB is not a listed option, only Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, iCloud and others, such as "other account POP IMAP".

I am not well versed in these TB matters.

Can I access exported emails? If so, how?

Are my exported emails still accessible as emails?

Should I have alerted the technician about this before he transferred my info to my new PC?

Many thanks in advance for all help!

Best, Stefan Andersson

My Thunderbird keeps crashing and/or not responding. I cannot access the export tool for my settings, etc. Can I just download the latest version of Thunderbird and install it over my present version without losing all my settings and addressbook? Thanks in advance for your help.

My email provider is closing down in July and I found Thunderbird as an excellent new provider. In a write up, it said it was very easy to add a second, separate account. I wish to do this to keep personal emails separate from work and charity emails. How do I do this, please? (I am elderly, disabled, and not too good when it comes to IT. In other words, help needs to be spelled out in words that I can understand as I have'nt a clue what some of the language, in daily use by people who are familiar with it means. Thank you.

I just downloaded and installed Thunderbird to use for my email because I have nothing but trouble with the Windows 11 Mail program on my computer. Apparently I've missed something critical in the set up because it doesn't access any of my emails. Even if I try to send myself an email it says the sending failed because the server was unable to access the mailbox. My email address is through Frontier, which uses Yahoo Mail to handle it's email. My email address is xxxxxx@frontier.com. When I check my settings on Thunderbird it has my correct email address for account name and email address, and under server settings it has my correct email address for user name, for server type says IMAP Mail Server, and for server name says imap.mail.yahoo.com. For port it says 993(default). I used to use Thunderbird on a previous laptop, with the same email address, and never had a problem. Can someone tell me what I might be missing? I will admit to being middle of the pack when it comes to being tech savvy, so don't get too technical please. Appreciate any help.

I am receiving the following error message when I try to download messages from my Comcast.net account:

The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving a message. Mail server mail.comcast.net responded: Message 41395 expunged.

This just started happening yesterday, and I can no longer download any messages from the account. Comcast has no clue why this is happening.

Hello, my computer died but before it did i backed up my Thunderbird profile files - the backup is 77.8GB so big to zip using export. I installed Thunderbird v.102.8.0 64 bit; and copied my backed up files over and now my email account list shows when clicking the dropdown arrow next to "get messages" but the email account list (72 email accounts) does not show in the left hand pane.

I have attached images of what I see, what is showing in app data - both local and roaming, and also of both .ini files.

Using the troubleshooting setting the software is pointing to the correct location.

I would truly appreciate your help.

Thank you,

Robin Monroe