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How to reload archived email(yearly) folders to view emails

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panicum
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I have saved my archived yearly mail folders to an external drive and am now using Thunderbird on another computer. How do I retrieve these old folders and make them appear in the current Thunderbird program as archive folders so I can view these emails?

Thanks very much

I have saved my archived yearly mail folders to an external drive and am now using Thunderbird on another computer. How do I retrieve these old folders and make them appear in the current Thunderbird program as archive folders so I can view these emails? Thanks very much

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_folders

panicum
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panicum said

I have saved my archived yearly mail folders to an external drive and am now using Thunderbird on another computer. How do I retrieve these old folders and make them appear in the current Thunderbird program as archive folders so I can view these emails? Thanks very much
panicum
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Thanks sfhowes, I will try try the instructions in the link.