moving data from Thunderbird to a new computer did not work - help, please!

I - I hope! -followed all instructions Support of Thunderbird on moving a profile from one computer to another with a different OS (save a copy of the profile of the first computer file, download and install TB on the new computer, find the 'Profile' folder and then either paste the contents of the old profile file in the new profile file [thus overwrite the latter]) then open TB... but it didn't work.

I then tried the same thing, but with a slightly different method: I copied the name of the new profile file, he has given the profile of the old computer file, then renamed the new file profile and pasted the old profile file - now with the new designation - in the new directory... which also did not work.

I spent a few hours trying to get this to work and am almost to the point of giving up on tuberculosis as an e-mail.

Any help would be welcome!

Hi, Matt;

Thank you for your continued support - I appreciate it!

Yesterday, I downloaded the command-line tool dbx to eml unless you had kindly recommended (at http://code.google.com/p/undbx/ ), and, as I had supposed, its function is to do what OE itself can only do by email - that is, convert a .dbx .eml format - but do it by folder, records forever, which is much more elegant.

The tool dbx to eml was very easy to download and use, and I could ask him to convert all my files at once (which is equivalent to more than 50 records and hundreds of emails). He did a great job, and I was able to identify the location of the output directory that results anywhere I wanted.

Because the tool dbx to eml records records converted to any specified location, one can then import them into Thunderbird Thunderbird either on the same or another computer.

I wanted to spend all my email OE to a new computer (which involves a passage from XP to Windows 7), and, in my case, it was easy to do because I have two computers connected by a network (intranet) data drives: after you convert all the OE dbx eml files, I went to my new computer to Thunderbird instance and , using the add-on for Thunderbird Import-ExportTools (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/), I simply imported saved eml files, one at a time. It has worked flawlessly.

In a situation in which two computers were not connected by a network, we could easily save the eml on a USB output directory and have computer of the new Thunderbird import eml from this location.

I would also add that this dbx to eml command-line tool is supposed to also function as a current backup utility: it begs for find and convert new files later in OE, and it only will not do, but is also their corresponding folders in the original output folder, if they exist from a previous operation.

I still have to import all my newly created on my Windows 7 Thunderbird eml files, but - so far - it seems like it should work smoothly.

Based on the different methods I did research - and the few that I actually tried - has my reviews, so far, is that using the tool of command line without dbx-to-eml, at http://code.google.com/p/undbx/ , is the way simpler and more reliable to move files from email Outlook Express - within their corresponding e-mail folders - to Thunderbird , either the same or different computers.

It would be nice if Mozilla could try this method for themselves, and - if they are to find it as infallible, as I - promote this as one of the first methods to use to move electronic mail Outlook Express to Thunderbird. It others will save a lot of time and frustration.

Matt - your kind and generous support made it happen: thanks!

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