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Where are folders stored?

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Hello,

This is in relation to my posting a couple of days ago. I successfully moved my abook.mab from my external hard drive 'old Thunderbird' to my 'new Thunderbird'. I also moved history.mab but am not sure what it is so I do not know how to test it. Now I am trying to locate and move all of my folders from the old to the new. I have several dozen folders which are subfolders of the main email folders such as - my family - is a sub folder of xxxxxx@triad.rr.com. Can someone tell me where to find these subfolders and what they are called? I am able to get to the xxxxxxxxdefault in the profiles but do not know how to locate the folders and their subfolders.

Thanks

Hello, This is in relation to my posting a couple of days ago. I successfully moved my abook.mab from my external hard drive 'old Thunderbird' to my 'new Thunderbird'. I also moved history.mab but am not sure what it is so I do not know how to test it. Now I am trying to locate and move all of my folders from the old to the new. I have several dozen folders which are subfolders of the main email folders such as - my family - is a sub folder of xxxxxx@triad.rr.com. Can someone tell me where to find these subfolders and what they are called? I am able to get to the xxxxxxxxdefault in the profiles but do not know how to locate the folders and their subfolders. Thanks

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AristotleNewton said

Hello, This is in relation to my posting a couple of days ago. I successfully moved my abook.mab from my external hard drive 'old Thunderbird' to my 'new Thunderbird'. I also moved history.mab but am not sure what it is so I do not know how to test it. Now I am trying to locate and move all of my folders from the old to the new. I have several dozen folders which are subfolders of the main email folders such as - my family - is a sub folder of xxxxxx@triad.rr.com. Can someone tell me where to find these subfolders and what they are called? I am able to get to the xxxxxxxxdefault in the profiles but do not know how to locate the folders and their subfolders. Thanks

I think I may have figured it out.

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Why not move the whole profile en masse?

BTW, history.mab provides the Collected Addresses address book.

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Zenos said

Why not move the whole profile en masse? BTW, history.mab provides the Collected Addresses address book.

That would have been nice to figure the en masse route but at this point I am happy to be just moving one sub directory folder at a time.

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OK, but for future reference:

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

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Zenos said

OK, but for future reference: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb

Ha Ha thanks for the link. I actually studied that link and just ended up doing it the slow way. I have been trying to move this data since Thursday and just happy to be wrapping it up. The good news is that I will know what to do next time plus I will probably try some of the add-ons. Which are your favorite add-ons?

Thanks again.

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I have all of these and somehow consider them all indispensible:

   abcTajpu "a b c type-oo"
   Address Close Button
   Auto Address Cleaner
   Auto Resize Image
   British English Dictionary
   Clippings
   CompactHeader
   Copy Sent to Current
   Correct Identity
   Custom Buttons
   Duplicate Contact Manager
   Enigmail
   Expression Search / Google Mail UI
   Extra Folder Columns
   FiltaQuilla
   Folder Account
   Folder Filters Button
   Folder Pane View Switcher
   gContactSync
   Get Selected Mails
   HabuL
   Image Zoom
   ImportExportTools
   JunQuilla
   keyconfig
   Lightning
   Mail Redirect
   MailHops
   Manually sort folders
   MoreFunctionsForAddressBook
   OpenAttachmentByExtension
   PrintingTools
   Quick Folder Move
   QuickFilters
   QuoteAndComposeManager
   QuoteCollapse
   Remove Duplicate Messages
   Show InOut
   Signature Switch
   StartupMaster
   Stationery
   Theme Font & Size Changer
   TitleCase For Thunderbird
   URL Link
   Use Bcc Instead