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Re: Backup only some folders?

From Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Re: Backup only some folders?
Date 2026-06-23 18:37 +0200
Organization Tschorkauer Zwetschgen-Pressen-Museum
Message-ID <6A3AB662.1090603@backwurst.de> (permalink)
References <111ean0$2cf1d$1@dont-email.me>

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Jo-Anne wrote:
> I'd like to save my very old messages, which are in a single folder, and then delete them from 
> Thunderbird. Is that possible? I've looked online but can't find a way.

If you want to reintegrate them in Thunderbird someday later *i would*
just zip\compact, copy or move the appropriate folder in the TB-Profile.

For more versatile usage of the single mails i would export them as
single ***.eml files.

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Backup only some folders? Jo-Anne <Jo-Anne@nowhere.com> - 2026-06-23 11:02 -0500
  Re: Backup only some folders? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-24 00:05 +0800
  Re: Backup only some folders? dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-06-23 18:36 +0200
  Re: Backup only some folders? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-06-23 18:37 +0200
  Re: Backup only some folders? "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2026-06-23 13:24 -0400
  Re: Backup only some folders? David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2026-06-24 08:18 +0000
  Re: Backup only some folders? "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2026-06-24 09:22 -0700
  Re: Backup only some folders? Jo-Anne <Jo-Anne@nowhere.com> - 2026-06-28 12:33 -0500

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