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Importing (restoring) backed up Thunderbird e-mails, with a twist

  • 06-01-2010 3:14pm
    #1
    JohnCleary
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    Hi guys,
    We have 2 PC's here, each of which had seperate email accounts using Thunderbird.

    One PC went bang, so I setup the one machine with the 2 email accounts using Thunderbird.... that's fine and plenty of emails coming in since.

    Now, I backed up the "Application Data" folder of Thunderbird, so have all emails from the PC that went bang (They're important)

    Now, the question is... how do I integrate these emails onto the new machine? I realise if I had a 'fresh' copy of Thunderbird (ie. no emails on it hence no data files) I could probably just copy and paste them into the "application data" folder of the Thunderbird folder on the new machine, but there's already emails there.

    I presume if I copy the files from the old machine onto the new machine the following will happen:
    1) There will be a name conflict (files will have the same name)
    2) They won't integrate


    A bit of an odd question I know, but if anyone has any ideas i'd be greatful. Google isin't being helpful, but I feel that's my own fault as I can't seem to find the right keywords to search.

    Many thanks!


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