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backup and recovery

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hunterbr
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I regularly backup tbird using Mozbackup. I delete emails from my inbox or shift them to local folders for storage. What I want to know is how to restore from an earlier backup but keep emails that have arrived since that back up. As far as I can seen, when I restore, everything current is overwritten so that all later emails are lost. Is there any way to restore old emails without losing the newer ones?

I regularly backup tbird using Mozbackup. I delete emails from my inbox or shift them to local folders for storage. What I want to know is how to restore from an earlier backup but keep emails that have arrived since that back up. As far as I can seen, when I restore, everything current is overwritten so that all later emails are lost. Is there any way to restore old emails without losing the newer ones?

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Matt
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if you know what your doing the answer is yes. but it involves renaming the backup to a zip, extracting files manually and importing them into Thunderbird using the import export tools.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/