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i had to restore Win7, still have all tbird folders, how to sync them with newly DLed tbird?

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my laptop is clunky and slow, so when i did a recent restore of windows 7 to fix things up, i first made sure all my thunderbird message folders were saved on an external hard drive. it seems i maybe should have done some kind of 'profile backup' that i wasn't aware of at the time.

now i have a fresh install of windows 7, a freshly downloaded and installed thunderbird properly synced up to my e-mail address, but no idea how to make thunderbird 'see' the folders (which i put back in the same place they had been before) that have all my saved e-mails.

any idea how to integrate the thunderbird folders from pre-restore with the fresh install?

my laptop is clunky and slow, so when i did a recent restore of windows 7 to fix things up, i first made sure all my thunderbird message folders were saved on an external hard drive. it seems i maybe should have done some kind of 'profile backup' that i wasn't aware of at the time. now i have a fresh install of windows 7, a freshly downloaded and installed thunderbird properly synced up to my e-mail address, but no idea how to make thunderbird 'see' the folders (which i put back in the same place they had been before) that have all my saved e-mails. any idea how to integrate the thunderbird folders from pre-restore with the fresh install?

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it seems i maybe should have done some kind of 'profile backup' that i wasn't aware of at the time.

Indeed.

any idea how to integrate the thunderbird folders from pre-restore with the fresh install?

Install this add-on. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Note, you can only import to a POP account or to the Local Folders account, not to an IMAP account.

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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

it seems i maybe should have done some kind of 'profile backup' that i wasn't aware of at the time.

Indeed.

any idea how to integrate the thunderbird folders from pre-restore with the fresh install?

Install this add-on. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Note, you can only import to a POP account or to the Local Folders account, not to an IMAP account.