[Discuss] Thunderbird: recovering old messages

[Frank Smith]

I've done this several times without fail (on Windows though ;)  I do 
seem to remember that when I reinstalled Thunderbird, I had to let it go 
through some initialization first.  If I recall correctly, I "canceled" 
out of this initialization somewhere around "create new account" (i.e., 
I didn't actually create a new account).  After Thunderbird exited, I 
deleted all files from <random number>.default and copied in all files 
from saved <different random number>.default and then restarted 
Thunderbird.  Thunderbird ran fine with these saved files (i.e., picked 
up all account and message data).

Frank

Murray Strome wrote:
> I reinstalled Kubuntu on my wife's computer.  I had backed up 
> everything. However, I am having trouble recovering her old E-mail 
> messages. They are all there, but I cannot figure out how to get them.
>
> When I reinstalled Thunderbird, the .mozilla-thunderbird directory is 
> created. The area where all the mail information is included is 
> <random number>.default
>
> I tried copying all the information from the saved <different random 
> number>.default to the new one. However, it still wants me to set up a 
> new account, and I cannot figure out how to access the information in 
> all the mail folders, etc. that are there.
>
> I think I have succeeded to do this in the past, but cannot remember 
> how to do so.  I have searched for solutions with google, but have not 
> come up with anything that works.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Murray
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