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How to import emails from another computer?

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Steve721
Steve721
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The hard drive in my computer stopped working. I have a backup program that backed up all the files. How do I import my email addresses and emails from the backup files?

Thank you,

Steve

The hard drive in my computer stopped working. I have a backup program that backed up all the files. How do I import my email addresses and emails from the backup files? Thank you, Steve

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Zenos
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You need the profile from your old hard disk, or hopefully from the backup file set.

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

See the part about restoring to a different location. Essentially, run Thunderbird on the new computer and it will create a new empty profile. Overwrite the old profile onto the new empty one. Do this in your file manager (e.g. Windows Explorer) with Thunderbird shut down.

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Steve721
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Thank you, Zenos. Yes, I've already found this response. I should have added that I already have several weeks of emails on my new hard drive, so my current profile is not empty. If I import a profile, it will overwrite all my current emails, etc.!

Is there a way of importing them into a separate folder, then moving them to the correct new folders?

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