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Bill
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I had a problem where my user got corrupted and I had to create a new user. I fortunately had a backup of Thunderbird which was created by the ImportExport add-on. I was able to restore my Thunderbird but I must have not backed it up for a couple of months. I do have a backup of my PC that was created on 10/3/17. I can see the profile and folder that has my local folders in it. I have what I want in that folder. I can open the folder with notepad and see the emails. Is there an option with the ImportExport tool to restore that folder? I know there are several options with the tool, but I don't know which one to use. There are several import options that sound like they may restore the emails.

I had a problem where my user got corrupted and I had to create a new user. I fortunately had a backup of Thunderbird which was created by the ImportExport add-on. I was able to restore my Thunderbird but I must have not backed it up for a couple of months. I do have a backup of my PC that was created on 10/3/17. I can see the profile and folder that has my local folders in it. I have what I want in that folder. I can open the folder with notepad and see the emails. Is there an option with the ImportExport tool to restore that folder? I know there are several options with the tool, but I don't know which one to use. There are several import options that sound like they may restore the emails.

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Bill
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From what I have read it appears that with the ImportExport tool you can import a mbox file. I have found the file I want in a backup. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

sfhowes
sfhowes
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Select a subfolder of Local Folders, or just Local Folders, then right-click, ImportExportTools/Import mbox file, and select the first option if you just have one or more mbox files that correspond to folders with no subfolders.

Bill
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What I ended up doing is I have software that will do a backup of my user files weekly. I had a backup of the profile just before this started. I ended up importing that profile and I was whole again. I was nervous about doing that but it worked perfectly.

Just to make sure I understand. If I had not imported my profile I could selected the mbox file from my profile and imported that file?

If you import a mbox file do you right click on the folder where you want to import the mbox file?

sfhowes
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Yes, you can manually import the entire profile or just specific mail folders. Right-click Local Folders or one of its subfolders; more instructions here. You've probably noticed that this add-on can export and import entire profiles, besides mail folders, and perform scheduled profile backups.