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The addon your site is telling me to use is corrupt and won't install

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kristat
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Installed thunderbird and followed the directions on this page:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-thunderbird#w_switching-from-windows-mail-or-windows-live-mail-to-thunderbird

it says i need to download the ImportExportTools addon to migrate my emails from WLM however when I try to download the addon it tells me it is corrupt and won't allow me to install.

Installed thunderbird and followed the directions on this page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-thunderbird#w_switching-from-windows-mail-or-windows-live-mail-to-thunderbird it says i need to download the ImportExportTools addon to migrate my emails from WLM however when I try to download the addon it tells me it is corrupt and won't allow me to install.

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https://support.mozilla.org/kb/installing-addon-thunderbird

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christ1
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Chosen Solution

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/installing-addon-thunderbird

kristat
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thanks

kristat
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strange though that the actual instructions for thunderbird tell you to download the addon but mozilla won't let you, you have to find a work-around.