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<h1>How I recovered my Thunderbird mail from backup</h1>
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<p>So the best way to backup your mails from Thunderbird is to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#backup">copy your
complete profile
directory</a>.
Follow these steps for <a class="reference external" href="http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#move">restoring your
mail</a>.</p>
<p>The fool that I am, instead of copying the full profile directory I
ended up backing up just the Mail subdirectory in the profile directory.
It took me a while to figure out how to restore the backup, so I thought
I would share it with you.</p>
<p>The first thing you do is install Thunderbird (if you haven't already).
Now Run( Windows : Start->Run or press Win key+r ; Mac/Linux - you're
smart enough to know :P ) this command "thunderbird.exe
-profilemanager". Create a dummy profile - just have some dummy email
address in there. Now exit Thunderbird.</p>
<p>Next step is to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#locate">find your newly created profile
directory</a>.
Locate the Mail directory in there. Now you have to copy 2 files from
your backup - both have the same name. One has a .msf extension and the
other has no extension. I had created a separate thunderbird mail folder
with a filter and I needed to backup just that one alone. So I just
copied those 2 files (from the Inbox.sbd directory) and put them in the
Local Folders subdirectory in the Mail directory (which already had
empty files like Trash and Trash.msf).</p>
<p>The file without extension - this is the actual mail file. It's in the
<a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox">mbox</a> format. The other is an
index file.</p>
<p><strong>Acknowledgements :</strong></p>
<p>I posted a <a class="reference external" href="http://vark.com/t/eee11d">question on Aardvark</a> -
<a class="reference external" href="http://vark.com/t/eee11d">http://vark.com/t/eee11d</a>. I got replies from Shel and Moez. I would like
to thank both of them for helping me out.</p>
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