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Re: Where does Thunderbird keep its emails?

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On 19/11/2015 10:36 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 18/11/15 23:10, David R Lane wrote:
>> I need to extract emails, in whatever format they are stored, from
>> Thunderbird which is on a hard drive taken out of a dead computer. I
>> can access the SATA hard drive as an external drive. Already many
>> documents and other files have been copied over onto a hard drive in a
>> working computer, but I now need to save out the emails. Where do I
>> look for the emails?
>>
>
> Wherever thunderbird was configured to store them
>
> on *nix the default is ~/.thunderbird/<random alphanumeric>.default/Mail
>
> But you can change that...
>
>
>> Dave Lane

On windows it's in:

c:\Users\[username]\appdata\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\[random #].default\

HTH

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Cheers,
Chris

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Where does Thunderbird keep its emails? David R Lane <D_Lane@PhoneCoop.coop> - 2015-11-18 23:10 +0000
  Re: Where does Thunderbird keep its emails? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-18 23:36 +0000
    Re: Where does Thunderbird keep its emails? Chris <c@b.a> - 2015-11-19 10:44 +1100
      Re: Where does Thunderbird keep its emails? David R Lane <D_Lane@PhoneCoop.coop> - 2015-11-19 22:32 +0000
        Re: Where does Thunderbird keep its emails? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-11-20 23:58 +0000
  Re: Where does Thunderbird keep its emails? Jon <jon@no-email.org> - 2015-11-19 20:01 +0000

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