338634 - Easier Backup and Recovery of all email and configuration

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247312

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[luddite]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

I would like to request a simplier way of backing up and recovering all email and configurations, profiles, RSS subscriptions and Adress Books (plus anything else similar that I might have left out).

For example, email boxes to move an existing profile or restore a backed up profile:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#move

Could this and the other things breifly mentioned be done in such a way (mayeb with a wizard), that I could do it in say, 3 mouse clicks, rather than having to follow instructions?

Also, with the importing and exporting of the other things I mentioned, it could ALL be done at once with say 3 mouse clicks into a designated folder, or designated schedule with incremental folder name?

Reproducible: Always




I just feel personally, that simple, low stress, backup and recovery should be the 2nd most important feature of any software application.

Also consider, that the recovery process (probably wizard) should be designed with the view that the person doing it is probably in a state of panic and high anxiety emotionally, thus not able to think clearly. So it should be a good, easily, reassuring process.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247312 ***