Backing up favorites and emails?

[Jack]

I bought a new computer with W7. Since no email program is included,
I installed thunderbird.

I used to regularly backup my favorites and emails, but I can't even
figure out where thunderbird stores them.
Where are they? Thanks.

[Sjouke Burry]

Use mozbackup on your old comp, to a stick,
then use both on your new computer to restore.
Mozbackup knows where to find and store things.

[Jack]

Actually, I just meant emails. I already figured out favorites...
I want to back them up using carbonite, so I need a location.

[Ron Hunter]

will Mozbackup know where to put things in Windows 7? Somehow I doubt that.

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C:\Users\jarif\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xyzzy.default

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[Ron Hunter]

within the Profiles directory, go to Mail, and then your server
directory. There you will find a file 'Inbox'. No extension. That
file contains your email.

[Tarkus]

I don't. I've used it several times on Windows 7. In fact, I just
recently used it to transfer my TB and FF profiles from one laptop to
another, both of which run Windows 7.

I doubt very much if it uses hard-coded paths, but rather checks the
registry or uses environmental variables.

[Ron Hunter]

If it checks the registry, or uses environmental variables, would it
still work on a portable Firefox installation? Windows 7 stores the
profile in a totally illogical place, so I wasn't sure it would find it
there.

[Tarkus]

On 1/8/2010 12:14 AM, Ron Hunter wrote:
> On 1/7/2010 8:37 PM, Tarkus wrote:
>> On 1/7/2010 6:09 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:
>>> On 1/7/2010 7:36 PM, Sjouke Burry wrote:
>>>> Jack wrote:
>>>>> I bought a new computer with W7. Since no email program is included,
>>>>> I installed thunderbird.
>>>>>
>>>>> I used to regularly backup my favorites and emails, but I can't even
>>>>> figure out where thunderbird stores them.
>>>>> Where are they? Thanks.
>>>> Use mozbackup on your old comp, to a stick,
>>>> then use both on your new computer to restore.
>>>> Mozbackup knows where to find and store things.
>>>
>>> will Mozbackup know where to put things in Windows 7? Somehow I doubt
>>> that.
>>
>> I don't. I've used it several times on Windows 7. In fact, I just
>> recently used it to transfer my TB and FF profiles from one laptop to
>> another, both of which run Windows 7.
>>
>> I doubt very much if it uses hard-coded paths, but rather checks the
>> registry or uses environmental variables.
> If it checks the registry, or uses environmental variables, would it
> still work on a portable Firefox installation?

I doubt it, since there would be no evidence where to look, and I don't
remember if it gives you the option to locate the path yourself.

Of course, with a portable installation, assuming it's on a flash drive
or something, kind of makes MozBackup unnecessary.

[Tim Mathews]

As a newbie to Thunderbird, I have to agree with using Mozbackup. It
does both T-bird (including the calendar addin) and Firefox so you've
got accounts, mail, news, favourites, home page and even cookies. You
run the restore from backup and it's as though you never changed
machines. And, I say again, I'm a newcomer to the programs and not that
techie wise. The prompt for my desktop is simply "default" the the
restore location needed to be identified--the usb memory stick.

[Tarkus]

Just used it again, and it has an option for portable installations, so
apparently the answer is YES.