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After moving emails to new folder on c: drive I canCan't open 't open them

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Hit the limit on email storage in Thunderbird and so copied and pasted all the emails to a new drive located at C:\Thunderbird\Mail Now, I can not search and open the emails.

I entered the above location in the account>server settings>'local directory' .

Suggestions appreciated.

Hit the limit on email storage in Thunderbird and so copied and pasted all the emails to a new drive located at C:\Thunderbird\Mail Now, I can not search and open the emails. I entered the above location in the account>server settings>'local directory' . Suggestions appreciated.

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Theoretically, that should work, if you copied the entire original "Local Folders" Windows folder to "C:\Thunderbird\Mail".

If you didn't copy the entire folder and it's contents, there could be problems.

An alternate way of doing this (possibly a better way), is to move the whole Thunderbird Profile folder to the new location, not just the Local Folders.

See: Moving your profile folder - Thunderbird

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thanks...,Still fiddling with this. Now a search will bring up the heading but not the body of the email.

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re :Hit the limit on email storage in Thunderbird

Can you supply a bit more info? Are you talking about an imap or pop mail account ? If imap then the limits may be refering to emails on server not in Thunderbird.

If you then copied a load if imap mail account files and folders into C:\Thunderbird\Mail location, is it possible that you have not synchronised those imap mail account first to get a downloaded copy.

Because it sounds like you have only copied headers and now those folders cannot synchronise with server to display the content.

RE: copied and pasted all the emails to a new drive located at C:\Thunderbird\Mail

Please post an image showing contents of that 'Mail' folder.

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I agree that "Hit the limit on email storage in Thunderbird" doesn't make much sense, unless a person puts too many e-mails in a folder. I assumed you mean that you ran out of space on the hard drive.

If the issue is like what Toad-Hall says, surpassing the limits on your e-mail server, that's a whole different ballgame.

If the issue is running out of hard drive space, then I still say that you should move the whole Thunderbird Profile properly to the bigger hard drive. The program itself can stay where it is.

I hope you meant that the new drive is a driver letter other than C:, because drive C: is normally the system drive.

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It's POP...

I copied the contents of the Mail' folder in this directory- C:\Users\Joe3\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\lmog55nm.default

Perhaps I should have copied the entire directory? The 'Mail' files on their own can not be opened in either the original directory or the new directory location.

thanks for your advice....

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Thanks...I'll give a try.

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Problem solved...thank you for your advice.