how can I tansfer my Thunderbird account settings onto a new clean install on Windows 7?
Hello,
I am about to do a new fresh install of my Windows 7 and I was wondering if it is possible to somehow transfer/copy the account settings on Thunderbird, so I won't have to set up everything form scratch again upon re-installing. What I mean is all the different e-mail accounts, folders and e-mail filters etc that I have set up. Is there a way I can transfer all that onto a fresh install of Thunderbird on my new Windows 7 install? This would save me a lot of time and work. I am not talking about transferring e-mails (I know how to do that manually), but all the account settings and such.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Lars
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Zenos said
Yes, it is all stored in what is called the profile. This is a set of folders that can be copied from one computer or installation to another. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb?esab=a&s=profiles&r=1&as=s The profile includes your stored email messages too.
Thank you very much! So all I need to do is install Thunderbird and then copy the profile folder from my old installation into the new install? And that will automatically also transfer all the e-mails in all the different folders and sub-folders (including archives)?
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Yes, it is all stored in what is called the profile. This is a set of folders that can be copied from one computer or installation to another.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb?esab=a&s=profiles&r=1&as=s
The profile includes your stored email messages too.
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Zenos said
Yes, it is all stored in what is called the profile. This is a set of folders that can be copied from one computer or installation to another. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb?esab=a&s=profiles&r=1&as=s The profile includes your stored email messages too.
Thank you very much! So all I need to do is install Thunderbird and then copy the profile folder from my old installation into the new install? And that will automatically also transfer all the e-mails in all the different folders and sub-folders (including archives)?
Yes! You got it.
Thank you very much!
One last question with regard to this: Do I just copy the Profile folder (even though it might have a different name on the new installation of TB) OR do I copy and past all the contents of the old profile folder into the new profile folder?