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How do I find and recover emails from an old hard drive?
My computer mother-board failed. The harddrive is still intact. I have enclosed it in an enclosure and made it into an external harddrive, however, I can't find the Mozilla Thunderbird emails. Is it possible to recover them? If so, how?
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Inappropriate?Hi WJ:
We need more information in order for the community to help you further.
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Provide lots of details about your problem In the description of your problem
1. list your mail service provider (e.g. gmail, hotmail, comcast, etc)
2. email protocol (POP or IMAP)
3. Without telling us your e-mail address or account name, what are your server settings, including server name, port number, and choice for "Secure Connection" for:
Tools->Account Settings->*account name*>Server Settings?
Tools->Account Settings->Outgoing Server (SMTP) (at the bottom of the list of accounts on the left)>*server*>Edit?
4. operating system (Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, Linux, etc), Thunderbird version
5. add-ons/extensions you have installed
6. what you did (a detailed, succinct numbered list NOT long descriptive paragraphs
COPY this example and modify as needed), what happened (including exact error messages) and what you expected.
The more information you can provide, the better the community can help you.
Having said that I'll guess you are using Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 and Windows XP and that the following could help:
1. Search your external hard drive for your profile. It will be in a folder called "Thunderbird". The profile contains your email and address book, etc:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_fol...
2. Once you find your email, transfer it to a new profile
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferrin...
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Title - Transfer E-mail from Old HD to New HD
Email configuration and provider - POP Earthlink
1. Mail Service Provider: your mail provider e.g. earthlink
2. Mail Protocol: your protocol e.g. POP
3. Thunderbird Version: your TB version 2.0.0.23
4. Operating System - your OS e.g. Old = Windows XP; New = Vista
5. SMTP Service Provider for outgoing email: Earthlink
6. Add-ons/Extensions: your extensions e.g. N/A
What I did: The motherboard crashed, but I was able to save the HD. I want to transfer my T-bird e-mail from the old HD to the new HD
1. you did this first - Searched in the old HD for Thunderbird
2. you did this second - Searched the Thunderbird files to no avail
What Happened: Stymied I searched T-bird assistance, but still could not make heads or tails of the process for finding old e-mail files
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Inappropriate?It is possible to search for data or files on your old drive. I would use biterscripting ( http://www.biterscripting.com ). Let's say you have mounted that old drive as X:/ drive. You can use the following command in biterscripting.
scr SS_FindStr.txt dir("X:/") files("*") str("From:") > Find.txt ; start "Find.txt"
The above will show you a complete list of files on that drive along with files and line numbers that contain the search string "From:". You can also use other search terms such as "Email", "Mozilla" ( a great product BTW), "hotmail", etc.
Hope this helps.
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Inappropriate?playerSEA:
the old drive was XP so the profile should be in a folder something like the following:
X:\Documents and Settings\<windows name="true">\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\profile name
where profile name is a random string of character name created by Thunderbird
(change "X" to the drive letter of your old drive) or as SenHu suggested search for the string "Thunderbird)</windows>
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