[pchelpers] Re: Mail importing from old Thunderbird

Hi John

>>   I have Thunderbird 1.5.0.5  (20060719) and this is what it shows on 
>> the Import panel
>> Address Books, Mail and Settings
>> Does that not work for you?
>>
>> Cy
>> John Durham wrote:
>>> Could do with some assistance here, as the main hard drive on my system 
>>> is faulty. I'm using the XP service drive to write in. The files on the 
>>> old drive are available for the most part, but I would like to import 
>>> mail and settings etc from the old accounts. Thunderbird seems to offer 
>>> import options for everything except that (why?).
>>>
>>> John Durham
> I tried that first, but these seem to import from Outlook, which the 
> mail was not in.

Yes, and i just realised i'd forgotten to answer your other question 
about why. Apparently Mozilla uses "import" to only mean "real" 
importing from another program. This is probably due to the fact that 
you don't have to actually do anything fancy or complicated to move your 
  email to a new computer. If you want to add a mail folder using drag 
and drop in OE, for example, you have to first make folders with the old 
names. In TB, the old folders automatically appear in the program when 
you drop them into the new profile folder.

I just looked closer at the links i sent and just realised they don't 
explain the simple case you have; they're talking about changing the 
location on the same computer. In your case, all you have to do, as far 
as i can see, is simply install Thunderbird on the new computer and then 
copy the old profile folder contents (not the main folder itself) *into* 
the profile folder on the new computer.

You'll be asked, of course, (by Windows) if you want to replace the new 
Inbox and other standard folders by the old ones. You'll of course 
answer Yes because the new ones are empty. So i'll have to edit the 
knowledge base to include that common situation of moving to a new 
computer and the easy three-mouseclick solution. You and anybody else 
can also edit the knowledge base.




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