[Discuss] Thunderbird: recovering old messages

[DR]

I have succeeded in doing exactly what you describe below in Linux.

Deid


Frank Smith wrote:
> 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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