preserving old emails
I have an old Thunderbird account that is no longer active but I have a huge archive of emails that I would like to be able to access. Thunderbird takes up a huge amount of space on my nearly full C drive because of this. Is it possible for me to save the archive on my D (data) drive and just have the program on my C drive. And how can I back them up. Thanks!
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There may be a simpler way, but this is my way:
- exit thunderbird - locate the archive in your profile and COPY (not move) to your other drive. Ignore the msf - restart thunderbird and click account settings and copies&folders and change to location for archive to the new location - at that point, thunderbird may close and restart - if satisfied with results, you can then delete the original archive location - to backup:
- ensure thunderbird is not running
- enter %appdata% in search window on task bar and press Enter key
- this should open windows file explorer in Appdata\roaming folder
- highlight the Thunderbird folder and copy to external media
- copy the external archive from its location
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