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Find/transfer Thunderbird data from a recovery disk, & not a computer, to a new computer

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arielremos
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Have a recovery disk with all my Mac data & would like to find & transfer Thunderbird data (Profile?) to new computer.

Have a recovery disk with all my Mac data & would like to find & transfer Thunderbird data (Profile?) to new computer.

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Stans
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See Profiles - Where Thunderbird stores your messages and other user data

If your backup contains Thunderbird data, then it should be in that same path and all you have to do is restore the backup there then launch Thunderbird.