TheHarvester
join:2006-08-25
Dana Point, CA
| Importing mail to thunderbird?
I finally got the better half to load Firefox and Thunderbird on her computer. She was using the Mozilla Suite version one I believe maybe Netscape not sure now. When I set up Thunderbird I had it import the E-mails which I thought went just fine. When looking through the e-mails it only imported the ones that had been deleted and not the active ones. Now her drive took a dump (software problem) I am able to retrieve everything from the drive onto my external drive.
Question 1) Is there any way to get the old Mozilla suite download so she can at least open the old e-mails?
Question 2) Is there any way to import the active E-mails from Mozilla 1 to Thunderbird? |
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Oregonian2
join:2008-07-16
Beaverton, OR
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·SpiritOne / Aracne..
| I use thunderbird and my email files total something about 8~9 Gb in size (no SPAM). Reason is that I've just been upgrading and importing from previous versions since the early to mid 90's or so. So I'm not sure what version is being used there, but I've probably passed through it at some point.
Perhaps you need to upgrade to something "inbetween" age-wise first?
Might be good to do a space savings run (compact files), delete the index files, and then do a rebuild on them to clean things up first (I don't recall how much of that was done in old versions -- been too many to remember which was which). Rebuilding is just opening the mailboxes who's index files have been deleted (or moved far away... just in case they needed to be moved back). Anyway, this will help it not get confused about which files in a email file are the deleted ones and which aren't (all are in there until compacting is done). |
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TheHarvester
join:2006-08-25
Dana Point, CA
| Thanks Oregonian2
It is a work computer and the new one came yesterday. I pulled the drive from old and copied all data to an external drive. Loaded F.F and Tb.on new computer, Copied the address book into new profile. Then I found all the inbox files (3). Copied one into the new profile, opened Tb and then moved all e-mail to new folder, copied another inbox to profile, and moved those to another folder. Last I copied one more (largest file) so I knew it was the original. When I opened Tb it showed the old e-mails from 2008 back to 2006 including all the spam. I just can't seem to get her to clean things up but OH well its her inbox.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. |
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nocannothave
join:2006-10-14
Kennewick, WA
 ·Charter Pipeline
·Verizon Online DSL
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July 24th, @11:18PM
| reply to TheHarvester
I've been moving Thunderchicken mail from PC to PC since 2004. I think 6 times now. You basically described my process. Never lost a single folder or setting.
Same goes for my WS_FTP settings (20+ entries), FF settings, add ons, cookies and auto complete info, and my other oft used programs. |
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