299888 - TB will not let you save more than one email at a time.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247312

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Derick Eisenhardt]

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TB will only allow you to save one email at a time. This is a major pain for
trying to backup your old emails. I've read some hacks that let you copy and
paste your entire profile, but what if you just need the emails?

I have a user that changed computers recently and needs to get all of her old
emails back on her new machine. If I do the profile copy trick, she will lose
all of her current emails, or ones she has recieved since the switch.
Thunderbird allows me to save a single email message to a file, but I have
around 100 I need to back up. There should be a File->Backup (or export or
something?) option that will allow you to save all of your old emails for such
an instance as I'm sure it will be fairly common in the future.

This happened on version 1.0.2 of TB on WinXP going from TB to TB on different
machines.

If this is a dupe, sorry...I looked. And if there is an easy work around for
this please let me know. Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

if I understand you correctly, there's an easy work-around. Create a new local
folder, copy those 100 e-mail to that local folder all at once, and then backup
the local folder.

Comment 2

[Peter Möller]

i suppose, this enhancement is covered by bug 247312