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I am switching from Windows 7 to Mac and need to migrate 10 years of thunderbird emails, how?

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I have to years of email in local folders that I access daily for all sorts of infiltration. These folders are my work archive. I would like to move from windows7-based PC to a Mac, but will not do it if I am not 100% confident that those files are coming with me and will be as easy to access. Thanks!

I have to years of email in local folders that I access daily for all sorts of infiltration. These folders are my work archive. I would like to move from windows7-based PC to a Mac, but will not do it if I am not 100% confident that those files are coming with me and will be as easy to access. Thanks!

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If the mail is in Local Folders, then it's in your profile. Instructions for moving a profile are here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb There's further information here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Move_to_a_new_PC If you can, get your new Mac set up and running with Thunderbird before you delete the messages from the old PC.