How to backup thunderbird email folders mac os#
In Mac OS X, you can make your “Library” folder visible (if it’s not) with the following command, executed from the Terminal (You can find the terminal in the utilities box, under Applications): In Linux and Mac, any file or folder starting with a dot (“.”) is hidden by default. Make sure that you have the “Show hidden files” option active in your file explorer. Please note that you may not see the folder where the Thunderbird folder is because it may be a hidden folder. If you’ve just installed Mozilla Thunderbird, open it once, close it without configuring and replace the data folder with the one from your backup. When you have to restore your backup, just copy the Thunderbird data folder from your backup to the place where it belongs. If you need more information, please refer to the Mozilla Knowledge Base, on the following link: On Linux, the Thunderbird data folder can be one of the following, but it depends on the distribution you’re using:
How to backup thunderbird email folders windows#
You just have to open the file explorer of your system, go to that place, go to “/Users//Library/” (in the example) and copy the “Thunderbird” folder to the destination of your choice, which may be an external drive, an online place like Dropbox, etc…įor Windows users up to XP, the folder where you can find the “ Thunderbird” folder is:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data In the path there is a folder named “ Thunderbird” that’s the one you have to copy to the location where you want to store the backup.įor example: For a Mac user, the place where you can find the Thunderbird folder is: Click there and on the right side you’ll see the path to the local folder. On the white vertical column on the left, scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see “ Local folders“.Open “ Tools/Options” Menu (if not visible, please go to the menu icon with 3 lines and look for this there).The place of this folder vary between different versions of operating system so, to see which is the folder, just follow these steps: There is a folder on your computer where Thunderbird stores everything. The Thunderbird backup can be easily done in one of the following ways: 1- By manually copying the Thunderbird data folder When you’re moving to a new computer or just for security reasons, you may want to make a backup of your Mozilla Thunderbird‘s data: all your emails, your email accounts, contacts and configurations. We at AuralSolutions recommend to our customers to use “ Mozilla Thunderbird” as an email client because it’s FREE, secure, multi-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows), it’s supported by the huge Mozilla community and it updates frequently, covering the latest needs.
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