{"id":163,"date":"2012-03-11T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=163"},"modified":"2012-12-01T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T15:34:00","slug":"backup-remove-thunderbird-profiles-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Backup \/ Remove Thunderbird Profiles &#038; Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very useful if you reinstall or just to help backup email<!--more-->Copy original Thunderbird data<\/p>\n<p>1. Set Windows Explorer to show the hidden files and folders.<br \/>\n2. Navigate to where TB stores their mail folders for this user. In Windows XP, C:Document and Settings\\Application DataThunderbirdProfiles. In Vista, they might be located in C:Users\\AppDataRoamingThunderbirdProfiles.<br \/>\n3. Copy the original Thunderbird folders to the new location. In our case, we use encrypted folders set to Drive T: so we copy the data to T:TB_Data or something similar.<\/p>\n<p>Perform New Thunderbird Installation<\/p>\n<p>1. Install Thunderbird but do not import anything when asked. Simply cancel then exit Thunderbird.<\/p>\n<p>Set up new TB profile<\/p>\n<p>1. Navigate to the &#8220;profiles.ini&#8221; file under the new computer&#8217;s Thunderbird directory (see above for location).<br \/>\n2. Copy and save the original &#8220;profiles.ini&#8221; file. Mine saved as &#8220;profile-old.ini&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Edit the &#8220;profiles.ini&#8221; file.<br \/>\n1. Set the relative path to &#8220;0&#8221; (zero).<br \/>\n2. Set the data path to correspond to the new path were the copied data is now located. In our case, it was T:My DocumentsTB_Data.<br \/>\n4. Save the &#8220;profile.ini&#8221; file.<\/p>\n<p>Set up Thunderbird<\/p>\n<p>1. Open Thunderbird and the old data files should now be in place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. Set up the user&#8217;s email account(s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very useful if you reinstall or just to help backup email<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,168],"tags":[45,115,116,114],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win-7-10-tips-tricks","category-xp-tips-tricks","tag-backup","tag-email","tag-profile","tag-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}