Where does "all your accounts" come from? I understand the logic and method which you describe clearly of getting the OLD profile "connected" to the new Thunderbird installed on the new PC, but I don't know how to get all the other "stuff" accounts, saved e-mails, addresses, etc.
All your accounts, e-mails, extensions, layout changes, etc If you click on that folder, you will find more sub-folders, of which some are likely labeled "imap", "imapmail", "mail", "POPmail" or other similar names. When you change the "profiles. Is that what you're asking me? Exactly what I needed to know. Replace the profile created when I install the new Thunderbird download. Opps - I did a search of my C: drive for a file with "default" in the file name.
Got hits. Thanks again for all your help. In the 30 odd years that I've had a PC even before they could be attached to the Internet I have tried to avoid getting down inside the various files that programs used for fear of messing up the application.
Wandering around in the bowels of Thunderbird is a very new experience for me and I appreciate your patience and understanding. When you click on the link I gave you the page opens three quarters of the way down, so scroll to the top and there is a link to finding your old profile. Earthling , Sep 11, Makes sense. I clicked around and found the ax8j99w4.
My youngest son is coming to visit this week-end and I'll get him to help me physically install the new machine it's still in the box using the KVM switch I purchased. Then when I get time I'll start the migration. I'll let you know how it goes, probably sometime next week. Thanks again for your instruction and patience. Last edited: Sep 13, Earthling , Sep 13, Agreed with IMAP settings "syncing" your e-mail between devices. It's my preferred choice also.
But many people "set it and forget it" and if you setup the earlier POP protocol, most people don't change it unless they experience problems. Good advice Earthling!
Hedon James , Sep 13, She can still access them but they are in separate folders from her IMAP mails and have to be mounted manually in Outlook to be accessible. I have no means of testing this in TBird but maybe you do have, Hedon? Don't want to hijack this thread but I just tried a bit of dragging and dropping between the old POP folders and the current IMAP folders and that worked fine so I could, if she wanted it, move all her old mail about 10 years worth!
But she's happy with the way it is, and it would increase sync times so probably best left as is. Back to the topic. I regularly access that AppData area on my Windows 7 computer. What concerned me was the " a aa. I have a slew of them for each of numerous aspects of my email life one of the realities which makes Windows 10 "mail" totally absurd for me to use. Transferring the Thunderbird folder includes the mail for all accounts and all account settings, for all profiles.
The Mail subfolder includes POP accounts mail and Local Folders, but the 'structural information' is mostly stored in the prefs. The profile name can be changed if desired, using Profile Manager, but the important item is that the profiles.
I see that the Prefs. It was only my Windows 7 search engine which couldn't find the "profiles. Stepping down through the AppData area on both machines, I found it with no problem. The one discrepancy remaining is that Windows 7 has an original "registry. I just copied the "Thunderbird" folder from Windows 7 to replace the automatically generated equivalent on Windows 10 using an external hard drive.
I was able to convert all of the mail over to Outlook. After that, I started up MS Outlook and imported all of the clients email addresses and groups. All is good now. I would recommend Aid4Mail since it was very easy to use. Initially, I had some problems but after their support got back to me, everything worked fine. The issue there was that Office needed the latest service pack.
I also created a dummy email account on my XP machine just to make sure that the MAPI interface was installed and working. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Sign in. United States English.
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