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everyone its Leigh here with another
tips video so in this video I need to
basically back up my mozilla thunderbird
my email client and all the relevant
data so all my emails all of my email
account settings and all of that kind of
business and transfer it to another
operating system i'm actually going to
be transferring it to Windows 10 which
is a what I have installed on the same
computer but on a separate hard drive
partition and so I'm basically in the
progress of migrating all of my
information across and so I've just been
reading up and how to do it and it looks
pretty straightforward and so let's go
through that process and hopefully I'll
share that experience with you so you
can reproduce it and make it easy for
yourself so all of the information is
basically stored in these mozilla
thunderbird profiles and it tells us how
to get access to them so it says to go
to the help and then if we go so this is
a fund about by the way it's already
opened up so it says go to the help
toolbar and then go to troubleshooting
information then it says you've down
this this application basics we need to
look at the profile folder and if we
click on that it says show folder which
takes us directly to this folder here
then what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to go up up one so yeah it has
that it's random sort of string and then
dot default and in most cases the doctor
fault is basically your profile name so
default will probably be the most likely
for you so then I'm just going to copy
that and then I'm going to save it where
I need to save it so you might want to
save it to a like USB pendrive or
external hard drive or something like
that I'm gonna save it to this drive
here and then I will paste it there I'm
not actually gonna do it in this part
because I've actually already done it so
it's saved to my secondary hard drive or
one of the other hard drives that I've
got and then that should basically be it
so that's the export
are there so I'm just going to close out
now what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to pause the video here we're
going to reboot with Windows 10 I also
need to install mozilla thunderbird but
then they'll go through the actual
importing process and share that with
you so I'm just going to stop that now
okay everyone so I've now restarted the
machine and we're now in Windows 10 I
have installed Thunderbird and run
through it the first time I've got this
folder here which is a backup Drive
where we save the fund of a data too so
now what I'm going to do is just open up
Thunderbird I'm just going to select
yeah we just want to configure our
account later because we're going to be
importing all of our details and you can
see the tabs already open from earlier
on just a moment ago actually what I did
actually have to do is um just
right-click just to enable via menu bar
and then now allow us to go to help and
then troubleshooting information which
is this page here so then we want to
find the sort of the new installations
default folder and I know it sounds
complicated but basically it's just like
a blank installation from this so we
will just want to show folder which is
this one here so you can see it's in
user's Lea then app data roaming
thunderbird and profiles is actually two
in here this one office is just actually
tinkering with initially I sort of miss
read the instructions and I actually
copied the actual backup straight into
this folder kind of as it was but that
didn't work you're not actually supposed
to do it like that so let me just delete
that you'll just have a single folder in
it that will look like that and so the
instructions actually tell you to and
open up the default folder and then open
up your sort of a backup folder and then
what you want to do is press ctrl + a to
select all and then you want to
you know ctrl + C or copy and then we
want to go back to the sort of the new
folder and then we just want to paste
all of our backup data into there and
basically overwrite anything with the
same name that's what the instructions
tell us to do so we're just going to
continue with that haven't had any
notifications regarding oh here we have
a just a set to the last a bit so we
want to replace the files in a
destination and that's just going to
over I over the top of everything with
the same name whoops I also forgot we're
supposed to during the actual file
corporate process let's just see if we
can try again that was in the best way
to do it we're supposed to actually
close thunderbird whilst we're
performing this operation so what I'm
going to do is and now that the fun of
us guys I'm actually going to go for
that whole process again so I'm just
going to copy just make sure and I'm
just going to paste again because some
yes are you supposed to actually have
that's why yeah you're supposed to have
fun to go close to watched you're doing
the actual copy and paste operation
okay so that's that completed and let's
just open up Thunderbird now and see
what happened
oh yeah the machine is loading up let's
have a look okay so that's a one of our
add-ons which is a search plugin so we
just want to allow that to work okay we
just need to restart Thunderbird again
that should allow that plug-in to work
that was a search plugin so it searches
for your emails better than the standard
search option
and another one hopefully we don't have
to restart each time ok so now can see
these two emails are left open okay
that's it that looks like everything is
a little bit different interface
compared to the previous version but
yeah that's basically everything I can
see Eric brings imported my all of my
messages of which there is plenty all my
folders my inboxes and I presume
everything else as well
and so yeah that's basically the process
and hopefully you found this video
helpful and that's all for this one
thanks for watching and see you guys
again soon
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