I need to extract emails, in whatever format they are stored, from Thunderbird which is on a hard drive taken out of a dead computer. I can access the SATA hard drive as an external drive. Already many documents and other files have been copied over onto a hard drive in a working computer, but I now need to save out the emails. Where do I look for the emails?
Dave Lane
Wherever thunderbird was configured to store them
on *nix the default is ~/.thunderbird/.default/Mail
But you can change that...
-- the biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is.
On windows it's in:
c:\Users\[username]\appdata\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\[random #].default\
HTH
-- Cheers, Chris
Thanks for that. I better not say on which OS this Thunderbird flies, but I was able to retrieve all of the emails.
Cheers, Dave Lane
-- They hang the man and flog the woman That steals the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.
If it wasn't on a Raspberry Pi, please ask on an appropriate group. Just as with csa.* this isn't a dumping ground for general enquires.
---druck
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