[TechAssist] Re: Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to back up lots of emails off the PC?]
- From: Phil Bader <tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:27:15 -0400
I see profiles wher you said, and if I open it there are several more
layers inside. If I had a USB hard drive,say, would you at this point
just drag the "profiles" folder over to the storage media as-is to back
it up off-computer?
Phil
Philip Bader
Jan Phyl TV Inc. (estab. 1976)
3420 Recker Hwy. Winter Haven, Fl. 33880
Fax (863) 299-8821
email: tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Larry wrote:
>Hi phil
>I use mozilla also.
>the mail folder is hid pretty good.
>first you must set your computer to see system and hidden files.
>then look in c:\documents and
>settings\administrator\application data\mozilla\profiles\ , it
>is there a few layers down.
>good luck
>Larry
>
>
>Phil Bader wrote:
>
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>>I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my email.It looks and feels like my old
>>familiar netscape 4.7. It seems better than Outlook express as for
>>sorting and searching high volumes of my tech emails archived in folders.
>>I want to be able to drag and drop (copy) the email over to some medium
>>off the PC like a USB hard drive, DVD,etc. Outlook Express scatters it's
>>data all over. The old Netscape,I could go to programs, netscape, mail,
>>users, folders and get the actual mail folders and slide them to a back
>>up medium. If I wiped the PC HDD clean all I needed do was reload
>>Netscape, go back to programs, mail, users,etc and reinsert all my
>>folders back on the HDD and it was all there as before.
>>I don't see an easy method here.
>>Any answers to this?
>>I am terrified I may lose this valuable info. I probably have several
>>gigs and more than several hundred thousand emails with a wealth of
>>fix-info.
>>Phil Bader
>>
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