Exporting E-mail addresses

MozBackup is the easiest way: http://www.fileparade.com/listing/123634/MozBackup?did=10844&pid=1&ppd=search,38138213257,mozbackup,e,,c,0,,,&gclid=CLv0sqXF07sCFfPm7Aod_0UAUwYou can also use it to make periodic backups of your mail files.

MozBackup will copy TB's profile folder which contains your mail accounts, emails, passwords, addon extensions, etc. So can easily upgrade to a new system without having to re-configure your email accounts. You can manually copy the profile folder, but MozBackup makes it easy.

MozBackup is good, but be aware of the extra junk that FileParade tries to install if you're not paying attention and declining the things you don't want.

I would recommend instead just download directly from the developer's site mozbackup.jasnapaka.com.

SRT,

Don't Work So Hard...
In TB go to Address book,
pick Tools
pick Export
Choose a file type and write it to the desk top
Get it from one desk top to the other (only about 50 ways)
Then open the same path on the new machine and pick Import...

Matt

Matt_Colie wrote:
SRT,

Don't Work So Hard...
In TB go to Address book,
pick Tools
pick Export
Choose a file type and write it to the desk top
Get it from one desk top to the other (only about 50 ways)
Then open the same path on the new machine and pick Import...

Matt

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If you export just your email addresses, then you will have to setup your email account(s), passwords, plus transfer any locally stored emails, over to your new computer. Or copy the TB profile file from your laptop, paste into your desktop install of TB, and you're done. Nothing to setup. TB will be identical to you laptop.

1492 wrote:
MozBackup will copy TB's profile folder which contains your mail accounts, emails, passwords, addon extensions, etc. So can easily upgrade to a new system without having to re-configure your email accounts. You can manually copy the profile folder, but MozBackup makes it easy.

I'm interested in using MozBackup as I'm migrating from a Vista laptop to a Windows 8.1 machine. Do I need to load a new copy of Thunderbird on the 8.1 machine first, or will MozBackup do it all for me?

Thanks

Fred

You will need to have Thunderbird installed already.

Although I have used Mozbackup I now just copy the profile file from the Thunderbird profile folder and copy it to the Thunderbird profile folder on the new computer. That way all settings,emails,and addresses are transfered.
I do a weekly backup of the profiles of Firefox and Thunderbird as part of my regular backups so they are on an external hard drive sort of automatically.