You may need to compress it using a tool like 7Zip if it’s too large to fit on the flash drive. Inside that folder you’ll see a file that should be named something like: faultĬopy this file to your flash drive. Windows Vista and Windows 7 navigate to the following location:Ĭ:UsersAppDataRoamingThuderbirdProfilesĬ:Documents and SettingsPaulApplication DataThunderbirdProfiles Make sure that Thunderbird isn’t running and plug in your thumbdrive. While that is installing go to the machine where your email currently exists. I’ll be explaining how to do it using a flash drive or portable hard drive.ĭownload the latest version of Thunderbird to the machine you want to install it on and start the installation process. In order to make the migration, you’ll need a flash drive (preferably with a large storage capacity if you are a POP3 user), portable hard drive or a network connection with shared folders between both machines. The method I’m about to show you will work on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 & Windows 8 (Update: works with Windows 10), can be accomplished in less than 10 minutes and will allow you keep all of your email settings and email (doesn’t matter if you use POP3 or IMAP). I access all of my email through IMAP, so if I had just a single email address I wouldn’t have worried too much about just installing Thunderbird and manually setting up the account. Unfortunately I am not blessed enough to get by with just a single email address, not even remotely close, so other methods were required. Having it open is not only a distraction but sucks up valuable resources, so today I decided to install a second copy of Thunderbird on my other machine so I could access my email no matter what I was doing or running. When I’m developing or doing video editing on my main laptop I don’t want to have my email client running. Mozilla Thunderbird may be an excellent email client (and PIM with the right extensions) but for all the wealth of extensions available and it’s myriad of import options, it’s still incredibly difficult to export data such as email, accounts and settings.
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