[TechAssist] Re: Mozilla thunderbird ver1.0. How to back up lots of emails off the PC?]
- From: Larry <schntv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:55:17 -0400
Phil, just go deeper until you see a folder named mail, copy
the folder anywhere you want to save it, you also can save
your favorite list also.
larry
Phil Bader wrote:
> 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
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> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>>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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