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Can someone help me with backing up thunderbird?

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Nikilet
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When I backup Windows Live Mail, I can go go to the backup copy and open my folders and emails and read them. Can I do this in Thunderbird?

Is that one profile folder I copied enough to bring my entire account back if something should happen?

When I backup Windows Live Mail, I can go go to the backup copy and open my folders and emails and read them. Can I do this in Thunderbird? Is that one profile folder I copied enough to bring my entire account back if something should happen?

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Matt
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data

Thunderbird does not use the EML format for mail so no you can not read from your backup.