Thunderbird Local folder migration

Hello All and Happy Holidays, I work at an IT repair shop and am having the most difficult time attempting to migrate Thunderbird data from a customer's old PC to a new … (read more)

Hello All and Happy Holidays,

I work at an IT repair shop and am having the most difficult time attempting to migrate Thunderbird data from a customer's old PC to a new PC. I followed the steps of copying/pasting the data, and it mostly works. The primary issue is that it did not bring over all the local folders that he had saved apart from his IMAP account. The customer is an ex computer science professor and is going blind, so a lot of his relevant information is organized within these folders. Key issues that have made this different from a typical install: -Profile & Local folders are stored in his old OS drive (that is now D:) D:/~/user/appdata/roaming/Thunderbird/~ -files are more than 2GB, so I'm unable to export as .zip -His folders are alphabetical, and every time stops at a particularly larger folder that starts with a D (which had considerably more folders than many others)

The only solution I have come up with is copying/uploading the local folders to his IMAP email, but not all emails are being uploaded either. However, has been more successful than the other migration method, but this has to be done a single folder at a time and not all contents of folder are transferred...

Is there some type of script or other way to migrate these local folders?

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks

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Last reply by devontempelmeyer 2 hours ago

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hello

I don't seem to be able to attach and display a photo while sending an email. I transfer the image over but all that appears is a small square with no image displayed. Attachment doesn't seem to work either.

I'm on a MacBook Air

any help would be appreciated

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Google search says to change default app settings in Windows and settings in Email client.

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Asked by rick_hughes 8 hours ago

eero settings with Thunderbird

Hi, I am using Fibrus email (network name is HomeWifi and network key is Fibrus123). Fibrus uses eero as a modem. I cannot work out the correct server settings in Thunder… (read more)

Hi, I am using Fibrus email (network name is HomeWifi and network key is Fibrus123). Fibrus uses eero as a modem. I cannot work out the correct server settings in Thunderbird as there doesn't seem to be a place for 'network key'.

Most grateful for any help you can give me.

Simon

Asked by shpbrown 1 day ago

Last reply by shpbrown 8 hours ago

Advanced search directly in the global search function (from:XXX to:YYY subject:"foo" after:20d)

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Is there any hope for us to have syntax which allows for advanced search through all the folders of a different account? Something that allows powerusers to type something like: "from:XXX to:YYY subject:"foo" after:20d" and get results?

I'm currently parsing all my email with notmuch locally to get something like this. It would be great to be able to get this type of functionality in Thunderbird natively. There are some adons that I have found but they seem like hacks; search needs to be super reliable.

  • Apologies if this is has been asked before!

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Asked by GéraldT 1 day ago

Last reply by GéraldT 12 hours ago

Thunderbird calendar taking a long time to populate

Thunderbird version: 146.0 Platform: Windows 11 Email Provider: Google workspace I'm slowly persuading my wife to move over from outlook to Thunderbird (due to constant … (read more)

Thunderbird version: 146.0 Platform: Windows 11 Email Provider: Google workspace

I'm slowly persuading my wife to move over from outlook to Thunderbird (due to constant issues with google sync). I've got it all setup nicely and working BUT i'm having a real issue with the thunderbird calendar taking an absolute age to populate It is quite a well used calendar with lots of recurring events/reminders to pay bills etc. Just to get the Holidays in United Kingdom takes about 30 seconds and to populate from the gmail calendar takes around 8 minutes

It's the one stumbling block i'm finding to persuade her to move over so any advice that can be given would be greatly appreciate

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Thunderbird now has Local Folders and Templates confused

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Asked by edhaser 23 hours ago

Gmail not allowing Thunderbird address list send

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Used this for many years.

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Have server settings changed?

Asked by djmooty 1 day ago

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Last reply by yard1 1 day ago

I am using email [edited-for-privacy]@supanet.com

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Asked by John Bennett 2 days ago

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Getting emails to download following data migration by ISP.

My ISP, Plusnet, has recently migrated stored email to a new organisation called Greenby. From the day that Greenby confirmed that the migration was complete, no new emai… (read more)

My ISP, Plusnet, has recently migrated stored email to a new organisation called Greenby. From the day that Greenby confirmed that the migration was complete, no new email has appeared in Thunderbird.

They said that there was nothing to do, although I had to confirm some credentials such as username and password.

Clearly, there was something to do! How can I restart the download of email from my new Greenby webmail account to Thunderbird?

Asked by aidan2 3 days ago

Last reply by aidan2 1 day ago