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Can I export archives to an external drive

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I want to be able to back up my archived files to an external drive or USB memory

I want to be able to back up my archived files to an external drive or USB memory

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So what is holding you from doing this?

It should be easy to copy specific files to an USB drive or first put them in a ZIP archive.

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Are you getting some kind of error message?

Note: if a file is currently in use, it will be locked until the program using it closes.

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No I am not getting any error message. All I want is to be able to back up my archives to protect them from malware or hardware failure

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Thank you for your reply. Windows back up would meet my needs, but I would need to choose the files to backup, when setting up Windows backup. I need to know the location of Thunderbird's archives.

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