ot: migrating TB user's email to new laptop
another OT:
setting up new W10 laptop with TBird:
user has three accounts, several hundred emails on old laptop BUT NO LONGER on server
two of the accounts are on my Dovecot server, one on ISP server
what's best way to transfer local emails:
transfer TBird files laptop to laptop ? or, is there some way to sync old laptop to server, then retrieve on new laptop ?
thanks,
V
Did user historically have POP set up?
If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the emails back.
Sent from my iPhone
On 25 May 2016, at 07:13, voytek@sbt.net.au wrote:
another OT:
setting up new W10 laptop with TBird:
user has three accounts, several hundred emails on old laptop BUT NO LONGER on server
two of the accounts are on my Dovecot server, one on ISP server
what's best way to transfer local emails:
transfer TBird files laptop to laptop ? or, is there some way to sync old laptop to server, then retrieve on new laptop ?
thanks,
V
On Wed, May 25, 2016 4:31 pm, Philip McGaw wrote:
Did user historically have POP set up?
Philip, thanks
no, not for a long time, IMAP/143/StartTLS on old laptop
If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the emails back.
yes, I have old laptop here. sorry, not sure how to, is that inside TBird, or how ? (not very familiar with TBird...)
another OT:
setting up new W10 laptop with TBird:
user has three accounts, several hundred emails on old laptop BUT NO LONGER on server
two of the accounts are on my Dovecot server, one on ISP server
what's best way to transfer local emails:
transfer TBird files laptop to laptop ? or, is there some way to sync old laptop to server, then retrieve on new laptop ?
thanks,
V
But the emails are on the old laptop?
Can you send a screenshot of the left hand folder tree?
Sent from my iPhone
On 25 May 2016, at 07:37, voytek@sbt.net.au wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2016 4:31 pm, Philip McGaw wrote: Did user historically have POP set up?
Philip, thanks
no, not for a long time, IMAP/143/StartTLS on old laptop
If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the emails back.
yes, I have old laptop here. sorry, not sure how to, is that inside TBird, or how ? (not very familiar with TBird...)
another OT:
setting up new W10 laptop with TBird:
user has three accounts, several hundred emails on old laptop BUT NO LONGER on server
two of the accounts are on my Dovecot server, one on ISP server
what's best way to transfer local emails:
transfer TBird files laptop to laptop ? or, is there some way to sync old laptop to server, then retrieve on new laptop ?
thanks,
V
On Wed, 25 May 2016, voytek@sbt.net.au wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2016 4:31 pm, Philip McGaw wrote:
Did user historically have POP set up?
Philip, thanks
no, not for a long time, IMAP/143/StartTLS on old laptop
If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the emails back.
yes, I have old laptop here. sorry, not sure how to, is that inside TBird, or how ? (not very familiar with TBird...)
Start TB on the new laptop Close it You have created the default folder/settings in the local %appdata% folder
copy the %appdata%\Thunderbird folder from the old laptop to the new
Finished ;-)
The new laptop is now exacly as the old (better if TB same version before migration).
--
Regards, Paolo
That would work well too
However make sure you get to the bottom of the mail not being on the server as well
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Sent: 25 May 2016 10:16 To: voytek@sbt.net.au Cc: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: ot: migrating TB user's email to new laptop
On Wed, 25 May 2016, voytek@sbt.net.au wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2016 4:31 pm, Philip McGaw wrote:
Did user historically have POP set up?
Philip, thanks
no, not for a long time, IMAP/143/StartTLS on old laptop
If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the emails back.
yes, I have old laptop here. sorry, not sure how to, is that inside TBird, or how ? (not very familiar with TBird...)
Start TB on the new laptop Close it You have created the default folder/settings in the local %appdata% folder
copy the %appdata%\Thunderbird folder from the old laptop to the new
Finished ;-)
The new laptop is now exacly as the old (better if TB same version before migration).
--
Regards, Paolo
Just for information to help anyone else who ends up on this thread for similar reasons, here are some links to the relevant pages on the mozilla site.
Moving Thunderbird Data to a new computer <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer> Which has links to the detalsa about thunderbird profiles <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb>, which has details of backup and restore etc.
Pertinent to this thread is the restoring to a different location <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_restoring-to-a-different-location> sub section.
@voytek : If you continue to have problems I would strongly recommend looking at the mozilla help pages, and if neccessary droping a message to their forums (they are after all the thunderbird experts ;) ), I personally have found them very helpful.
Hope that helps
David.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Skippy <philip@mcgaw.eu> wrote:
That would work well too
However make sure you get to the bottom of the mail not being on the server as well
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Sent: 25 May 2016 10:16 To: voytek@sbt.net.au Cc: Dovecot Mailing List Subject: Re: ot: migrating TB user's email to new laptop
On Wed, 25 May 2016, voytek@sbt.net.au wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2016 4:31 pm, Philip McGaw wrote:
Did user historically have POP set up?
Philip, thanks
no, not for a long time, IMAP/143/StartTLS on old laptop
If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the emails back.
yes, I have old laptop here. sorry, not sure how to, is that inside TBird, or how ? (not very familiar with TBird...)
Start TB on the new laptop Close it You have created the default folder/settings in the local %appdata% folder
copy the %appdata%\Thunderbird folder from the old laptop to the new
Finished ;-)
The new laptop is now exacly as the old (better if TB same version before migration).
--
Regards, Paolo
On 5/25/2016 5:15 AM, Paolo <sottilette@rfx.it> wrote:
Start TB on the new laptop Close it You have created the default folder/settings in the local %appdata% folder
copy the %appdata%\Thunderbird folder from the old laptop to the new
No need for step 1.
Just copy the folder from %appdata% on old PC to the new PC %appdata% and you're done.
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