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Where are the Inbox & Sent emails stored on Ubuntu 14.04

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diggensr
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I tried to upgrade Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 but it froze halfway through and nothing works anymore. My data is on other partitions so I can recover but my Thunderbird Inbox and Sent emails will be overwriten when I reinstall 14.04. can you tell me the directories and files where they are keep please so I can recover them before installing. Many thanks.

I tried to upgrade Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 but it froze halfway through and nothing works anymore. My data is on other partitions so I can recover but my Thunderbird Inbox and Sent emails will be overwriten when I reinstall 14.04. can you tell me the directories and files where they are keep please so I can recover them before installing. Many thanks.

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Zenos
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If your "data is on other partitions" why do you say it will be overwritten?

Thunderbird stores its data in its profile, which in Linux is ~/.thunderbird

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

When re-installing Linux, there should be no need to overwrite the /home folder.

diggensr
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I re-installed 14.04 alongside the failed 16.04 install. When I try to login to 16.04 I can only get the command line. However, I can find where my profiles are but I cannot access other partitions on my hard drive or even a USB flash drive so I can copy my files over. Any suggestions please?