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I would like to backup the content (e mails, contacts,settings etc.) of my thunderbird application

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Albert5
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1.) Is there a phone number to call thunderbird customer support ? 2.) I would like to backup all my e mails and contacts, settings etc. of my thunderbird app. but there is no backup and restore feature in the app to do this. This is important in case of a pc hardware failure where I would be forced to migrate to a new PC ! 3.) I tried Mozbackup and it is not working.

1.) Is there a phone number to call thunderbird customer support ? 2.) I would like to backup all my e mails and contacts, settings etc. of my thunderbird app. but there is no backup and restore feature in the app to do this. This is important in case of a pc hardware failure where I would be forced to migrate to a new PC ! 3.) I tried Mozbackup and it is not working.

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Hello,

See these two article:

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Diego Victor
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Hello,

See these two article:

Humberto
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Where is the Thunderbird backup tool? Should be under the menu <files> or <tools> but it is not. I use Linux ubuntu, I could back the files if there was a tool allowing me to change the location of thunderbird files. Where are they?

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christ1
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Humberto, backing up your Thunderbird profile is as simple as copying the profile folder to a safe place.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_backing-up-a-profile

I don't understand your problem 'change the location of thunderbird files'.

christ1
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Albert5, check the MozBackup support page for help with MozBackup.

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/support.php

Otherwise the easiest way to backup your profile is to copy the Thunderbird profile folder to a safe place.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_backing-up-a-profile