1764493 - Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[John Smith]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

Transfering a copy of Thunderbird from Windows 7 to Windows 11.
Cant't be done, well I did it through the help of this link:

Actual results:

This issue has been painstakingly, finally resolved:
https://www.askwoody.com
Click on Questions: Browsers and desktop software – other
Click on Cannot set up an existing account.

Expected results:

This in my mind should have come under General Knowledge, but just like the countless other forum sites nobody knew how to do this!

Comment 1

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

Did you try the official Thunderbird Help site?

Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

We're also working on import/export, which will guide you through it.