Archived email did not transfer from an upgrade to Mac El Capitan 10.11.6
When I restored the Mac from TimeMachine after the upgrade, none of the Archives folders / emails came with it. The folders show up empty.
I went into Library>Thunderbird>Profiles> and found a 1 KB file associated with the respective Archives folders.
I may have a backup in Carbonite that has these files.
Many thanks in advance!
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Looks like the Thunderbird profile wasn't backed up?
In any case, what is your question?
Thank you. This happened for three different account's Archives - all accounts associated with a GoDaddy Account. POP server, not IMAP.
My question is where on Earth might the profiles be hidden? Apple assures me that Time Machine captures everything on the hard drive, so I am hopeful that the files are somewhere on the backup. I followed the T-bird directions for making an Archive.
Again, thanks!
For the profile location see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
To manually backup your profile: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_backing-up-a-profile
Note, archiving and profile backup are entirely different things from a Thunderbird point of view. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/archived-messages