Thunderbird mail - need help please.

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:hi:
I've got my old HD on a little black box here. I can view the contents of it and just managed to find my hidden old mail in Thunderbird finally.

My question is this:

How do I manage to get this mail on the computer I am now using so I can read it?

I couldn't find any great answers on this.

As it now stands, I have transferred(copied) the folder containing the mail on to the desktop of the computer I am now using and have renamed it MAIL2.

Please help if you happen to know how I can manage to read it.

Thank you! :)

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[paparush]

1. Recover Thunderbird Mail and Address Book

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=647637

[KeepItReal]

2. I Used MOZBACKUP to copy Thunderbird to my new PC

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

[Hokie]

3. Mozbackup is great

You can transfer everything manually but Mozbackup worked well for me when I got a new PC.

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4. thanks for the help

I really appreciate the help. I'm barely up and running again. Never did get a new laptop. Fired that server effective 7/31/08. ENOUGH.

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5. new computer finally!!

:hi:

I got a new computer that actually seems to work! It is a Toshiba Tecra A9 and it has Windows XP Professional installed on it. It seems very good so far. It has a 15.4" matte finish screen and seems to be solidly built best I can tell (much better than a Lenovo, that is for certain FYI).

However, I was not able to recover my mail from Thunderbird on the external hard drive that I have. :( In fact, it crashed my system (luckily, this Toshiba Tecra it came with a recovery disk) and Thunderbird would not stop running after I copied the file for the mail into the new version of Thunderbird. I've noted I was running 1.0 on the old computer and now Thunderbird is at 2.0.0.16. Maybe this is the problem.

I'm thinking I give up at this point re: the old mail in Thunderbird.

At least I have a working computer once again.

Thanks to all of you during this lengthy process!

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