James wrote the following on 6/15/2008 08:55 AM:
> Hi, I suspect that this has been addressed before. I need to save some
> of my e-mails to a flash drive. I have them in separate folders in TB
> and would like to save the whole folder. How do I do this? Can they be
> dragged and dropped or do I have to jump through some hoops. Thanks Jim

I use the "ImportExport Tools (MboxImport enhanced)" addon here:
http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
to move emails back and forth between work and home installations of
Thunderbird.

This addon will save individual emails or entire folders of emails to
various formats (but I've just used .eml myself). Performs reliably and
does what it says, no fuss, no muss.

Lance
*****

James wrote:
> Hi, I suspect that this has been addressed before. I need to save some
> of my e-mails to a flash drive. I have them in separate folders in TB
> and would like to save the whole folder. How do I do this? Can they be
> dragged and dropped or do I have to jump through some hoops. Thanks Jim



A backup/save shema which seems to suit your purpose.


You already have the email in unique folders.
To save/backup make note of the name of the folders, quit Thunderbird.

Go into your profile, into the mail folder and find the names that
correspond to your folders.

i.e. if your folder is named Funnies then you are looking for the file
named 'Funnies'

Leave any other files you find there such as Funnies.msf or Funnies.sbd
in place, do not move these.

Place the 'Funnies' file into someplace outside the Thunderbird
program/file/folder on your harddrive.



Now. if you ever want to access those email again, simply drop the file
you removed back into where you got it from, restart Thunderbird and
all your email is there again.

Lance wrote:

> James wrote the following on 6/15/2008 08:55 AM:
> > Hi, I suspect that this has been addressed before. I need to save
> > some of my e-mails to a flash drive. I have them in separate
> > folders in TB and would like to save the whole folder. How do I do
> > this? Can they be dragged and dropped or do I have to jump through
> > some hoops. Thanks Jim
>
> I use the "ImportExport Tools (MboxImport enhanced)" addon here:
> http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
> to move emails back and forth between work and home installations of
> Thunderbird.
>
> This addon will save individual emails or entire folders of emails to
> various formats (but I've just used .eml myself). Performs reliably
> and does what it says, no fuss, no muss.
>
> Lance
> *****

Thanks for the heads up. I installed the add-on and it works good. A
slight learning curve (very slight). Now if I could just get Eudora 8
to work with Webmail. Jim

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Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:

> James wrote:
> > Hi, I suspect that this has been addressed before. I need to save
> > some of my e-mails to a flash drive. I have them in separate
> > folders in TB and would like to save the whole folder. How do I do
> > this? Can they be dragged and dropped or do I have to jump through
> > some hoops. Thanks Jim
>
>
>
> A backup/save shema which seems to suit your purpose.
>
>
> You already have the email in unique folders.
> To save/backup make note of the name of the folders, quit Thunderbird.
>
> Go into your profile, into the mail folder and find the names that
> correspond to your folders.
>
> i.e. if your folder is named Funnies then you are looking for the
> file named 'Funnies'
>
> Leave any other files you find there such as Funnies.msf or
> Funnies.sbd in place, do not move these.
>
> Place the 'Funnies' file into someplace outside the Thunderbird
> program/file/folder on your harddrive.
>
>
>
> Now. if you ever want to access those email again, simply drop the
> file you removed back into where you got it from, restart Thunderbird
> and all your email is there again.

I don't seem to have a Profile in Thunderbird that shows folders in
fact it don't show much of anything. I used the Import/Export add-on
from the other post. It works good for my purposes. Jim

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James wrote:
> Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
>
>> James wrote:
>>> Hi, I suspect that this has been addressed before. I need to save
>>> some of my e-mails to a flash drive. I have them in separate
>>> folders in TB and would like to save the whole folder. How do I do
>>> this? Can they be dragged and dropped or do I have to jump through
>>> some hoops. Thanks Jim
>>
>>
>> A backup/save shema which seems to suit your purpose.
>>
>>
>> You already have the email in unique folders.
>> To save/backup make note of the name of the folders, quit Thunderbird.
>>
>> Go into your profile, into the mail folder and find the names that
>> correspond to your folders.
>>
>> i.e. if your folder is named Funnies then you are looking for the
>> file named 'Funnies'
>>
>> Leave any other files you find there such as Funnies.msf or
>> Funnies.sbd in place, do not move these.
>>
>> Place the 'Funnies' file into someplace outside the Thunderbird
>> program/file/folder on your harddrive.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now. if you ever want to access those email again, simply drop the
>> file you removed back into where you got it from, restart Thunderbird
>> and all your email is there again.
>
> I don't seem to have a Profile in Thunderbird that shows folders in
> fact it don't show much of anything. I used the Import/Export add-on
> from the other post. It works good for my purposes. Jim
>


In this article you will be shown where your profile is

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:

> James wrote:
> > Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
> >
> > > James wrote:
> > > > Hi, I suspect that this has been addressed before. I need to
> > > > save some of my e-mails to a flash drive. I have them in
> > > > separate folders in TB and would like to save the whole folder.
> > > > How do I do this? Can they be dragged and dropped or do I have
> > > > to jump through some hoops. Thanks Jim
> > >
> > >
> > > A backup/save shema which seems to suit your purpose.
> > >
> > >
> > > You already have the email in unique folders.
> > > To save/backup make note of the name of the folders, quit
> > > Thunderbird.
> > >
> > > Go into your profile, into the mail folder and find the names that
> > > correspond to your folders.
> > >
> > > i.e. if your folder is named Funnies then you are looking for the
> > > file named 'Funnies'
> > >
> > > Leave any other files you find there such as Funnies.msf or
> > > Funnies.sbd in place, do not move these.
> > >
> > > Place the 'Funnies' file into someplace outside the Thunderbird
> > > program/file/folder on your harddrive.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Now. if you ever want to access those email again, simply drop the
> > > file you removed back into where you got it from, restart
> > > Thunderbird
> >>and all your email is there again.
> >
> > I don't seem to have a Profile in Thunderbird that shows folders in
> > fact it don't show much of anything. I used the Import/Export add-on
> > from the other post. It works good for my purposes. Jim
> >
>
>
> In this article you will be shown where your profile is
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

Thanks. Now I know where to find it. Jim

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