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Problem recovering old messages

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My computer had to be reinstalled from scratch. Old messages are in Thunderbird2022, Thunderbird 2023 and Thunderbird2024 folders. They were each year's local folders saving place, regularly copied for backup. Each of them include lots of folders and their subfolders of type .sbd and .mozmsgs and files of type .msf and same names without any extension.

Now I need to get these messages active again, but there seems to be no choice or tool for importing them. Nothing I tried helps. I browsed some documents and found an unknown feature "profile", which I have never used. Are my old messages now somehow locked because of this and is there a way to bypass it or is the only option now to switch for example to a Microsoft mail product to get the messages?

My computer had to be reinstalled from scratch. Old messages are in Thunderbird2022, Thunderbird 2023 and Thunderbird2024 folders. They were each year's local folders saving place, regularly copied for backup. Each of them include lots of folders and their subfolders of type .sbd and .mozmsgs and files of type .msf and same names without any extension. Now I need to get these messages active again, but there seems to be no choice or tool for importing them. Nothing I tried helps. I browsed some documents and found an unknown feature "profile", which I have never used. Are my old messages now somehow locked because of this and is there a way to bypass it or is the only option now to switch for example to a Microsoft mail product to get the messages?

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Rick
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Hi,

There are (at least) two ways:

1. Copy or move the files "with same names without any extension" into the "local folders" of your profile in whatever folder hierarchy you want. Those are mbox files that hold your messages. You could copy or the move the .msf files too or let Thunderbird re-create them. They are index files. Re-start Thunderbird.

2. Get the ImportExportTools NG add-on and import folders one-by-one.

If you need to know where your profile is, would you please say what operating system you are on?

Please ask if you want more details.

Good luck.

Rick

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