Follow this:
Click on:
Start > Run, Type in "%AppData%" (with out the quotes).
Now you should see "Roaming" listed.
Click on "Roaming" and now you should see a big list of programs etc.
Scroll down to where "Thunderbird" is listed and click on it.
Now you should see:
1. Crash Reports
2. Profiles
3. profiles
4. registry.dat
Now click on Profiles (2) and copy this to a cd or another drive. This "Profiles" list has ALL of your INBOX mail and your contacts.
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Restore a backed up profile
# note the current location of the profile you want to restore.
A. Open up profiles.ini in a text editor. The file is located in the application data folder for Thunderbird:
* On Windows Vista/XP/2000, the path is %AppData%\Thunderbird\
* On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Thunderbird\
* On Linux, the path is ~/.thunderbird/
* On Mac OS X, the path is ~/Library/Thunderbird/
B. In profiles.ini, locate the entry for the profile you've just moved. Change the "Path=" line to the new location. IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you switch from a relative path to a non-relative one, the direction of the slashes may need to change (e.g. in Windows, non-relative paths use backslashes, whereas relative ones use forward slashes).
C. Change "IsRelative=1" to "IsRelative=0".
(Of which you will find in "profiles" (NOT "Profiles") (number 3), if you click on it you will see something like:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/j61yg6yp.default
Default=1
[Profile1]
Name=Peconet Mail backup
IsRelative=0
Path=D:\Peconet Thunderbird backup
D. Save "profiles.ini" and restart Thunderbird.
Hope this is of help to you.
