How To Manually Backup Thunderbird
In today’s Daily Tip I will cover ” How To Manually Backup Thunderbird ”
Manual Backup
Backing up Firefox and Thunderbird manually is as simple as copying their respective profile folders to another location. If you do that, you’ll have a full backup with all your setting and personal data saved.
An advantage of manual backup is that you don’t need to have Firefox or Thunderbird functioning in order to restore your backup; it’s just a case of copying the backup profiles.
The hardest part is finding the profile folders. There not located where you would expect to find them. Secondly, they are located in different places for different versions of Windows. Thirdly, they may be assigned random file names that make them difficult to recognize.
On Windows 2000/XP/Vista machines the locations for your Firefox and Thunderbird profiles are as follows
* C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<Profile name>\
* C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<Profile name>\
Example: My Thunderbird Profile location
C:\Documents and Settings\dedwards\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default
You can simply copy this ( xxxxxxxx.default ) to another location ie Flash Drive, External HDD etc.
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About the Author: Dusty Edwards is a Web Publisher, Blogger and Internet Entrepreneur. He is the owner of a TriCities consulting firm which specializes in network security and server administration. Dusty is a geek-at-heart who founded Tek-Media.net so that he could share useful information and discuss Technology with others.
