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How can I extract the Thunderbird emails from the hard disk retrieved from a broken laptop ?

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PhilipRoberts
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My laptop died but I could remove its hard disk and it is intact I have placed the disk in an external USB drive I have a new laptop and I have installed Thunderbird I wish to retrive the emails stored on the old hard I wish to store them in Archive folders on my new Thunderbird installation on my new laptop Please advise me on how I can do this Thank you

My laptop died but I could remove its hard disk and it is intact I have placed the disk in an external USB drive I have a new laptop and I have installed Thunderbird I wish to retrive the emails stored on the old hard I wish to store them in Archive folders on my new Thunderbird installation on my new laptop Please advise me on how I can do this Thank you

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Zenos
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Your old messages, and much else, are stored in the profile. Move this to your new machine.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb