Comments on: How do I backup Thunderbird mail and profile under Linux?

By: Viktor

Viktor — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:54:45 +0000

Thanks!!!!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:06:01 +0000

Good instructions, been looking for something like this for a long time. Thanks.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:06:48 +0000

backup to tape drive? that’s cool
who still does that :)

By: arif

arif — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:12:35 +0000

Alan you have to write full path :
/home/alan//Documents/email-alan-15mar2010.tar.gz

try this :
tar zcvf /home/alan/Documents/email-alan-15mar2010.tar.gz /home/alan/.mozilla-thunderbird/

By: alan abbott

alan abbott — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:20:25 +0000

I want to pass my mail files from one machine to another.
I tried:
alan@AlanUbu:~$ tar zcvf /Documents/email-alan-15mar2010.tar.gz /home/alan/.mozilla-thunderbird/
tar: /Documents/email-alan-15mar2010.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names
/home/alan/.mozilla-thunderbird/
/home/alan/.mozilla-thunderbird/khirznc6.default/
/home/alan/.mozilla-thunderbird/khirznc6.default/lock
/home/alan/.mozilla-thunderbird/khirznc6.default/localstore.rdf

What am I doing wrong?

By: e huehns

e huehns — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:23:25 +0000

I use Ubuntu 9.04 and want to back up my email files in Thunderbird. I’ve read the above instructions but they are meaningless to me. If I knew where to type them in I expect they would work. I need instructions right from the beginning what to do when I look at the ubuntu desk top.

By: PenguinUsr

PenguinUsr — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:45:07 +0000

Re: FireFox backup

FEBE!! Open your Firefox Browser > Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons > Browse all add-ons > in the Search Box type: FEBE or Google: Firefox FEBE

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:02:29 +0000

Hi.

Sorry, but don’t work on truecrypt-media!

Anyone have adds?

By: passerby

passerby — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:53:26 +0000

how to: backup on windows – restore same on linux

emigrate thunderbird from windows to linux

By: john

john — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:00:45 +0000

Sorry, but I did that and still doesn’t work. It shows instantly my restored email messages and then they disappear.

There are 2 profiles of course, the restored one xxx.default and the new one zzz.default which is empty.

Should I copy the contents of xxx.default to zzz.default or it is able to recognize the new profiles?

I copied from a Gentoo linux machine to a FreeBSD one.

Thanx for your reply…

By: sting

sting — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:35:22 +0000

Thanks so much! you have saved me so much hair pulling!

By: rocky

rocky — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:41:45 +0000

Same here thanks for sharing nice stuff
God bless you :D

By: zerogrounding

zerogrounding — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:57:29 +0000

Great How to,,
thank you very much,,
God bless you