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I need to set up longterm storage for some critical emails separate from "Profiles", which always seems to get corrupted by Windows crashes.

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I have used T'bird for over a decade now without problems - until Windows Features Updates came along. I have 2 email service providers and a combined inbox, and until now have been setting up as .pop3 accounts. I also havesubfolders for longterm storage of things like software registrations. Windows Updates to new Features editions always fail, sometimes with a blue screen of death, and require complete re-installation of Windows (don't bother going there - even the best Microsoft techs can't work it out), so I back up the C:\Users\.........\Roaming\Thunderbird directory and then copy it back to a clean Windows install. Unfortunately, this still only works some of the time: more often all the subfolders are lost or a few months/years are lost (and yes, I've tried all the tricks listed elsewhere). Careful inspection of the backups reveals that somehow, a few months or year or two's changes get deleted from the copies. So I'm not asking for new tricks to recover my Profiles, but just a simple method to store the contents of some of my more critical Mail subfolders in an independent directory independent of Thunderbird and Profiles, short of copying each one separately into a word processor. Any help on this greatly appreciated.

I have used T'bird for over a decade now without problems - until Windows Features Updates came along. I have 2 email service providers and a combined inbox, and until now have been setting up as .pop3 accounts. I also havesubfolders for longterm storage of things like software registrations. Windows Updates to new Features editions always fail, sometimes with a blue screen of death, and require complete re-installation of Windows (don't bother going there - even the best Microsoft techs can't work it out), so I back up the C:\Users\.........\Roaming\Thunderbird directory and then copy it back to a clean Windows install. Unfortunately, this still only works some of the time: more often all the subfolders are lost or a few months/years are lost (and yes, I've tried all the tricks listed elsewhere). Careful inspection of the backups reveals that somehow, a few months or year or two's changes get deleted from the copies. So I'm not asking for new tricks to recover my Profiles, but just a simple method to store the contents of some of my more critical Mail subfolders in an independent directory independent of Thunderbird and Profiles, short of copying each one separately into a word processor. Any help on this greatly appreciated.

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File|Save As in the menu will save messages as files. By default they will be eml files and will need an email client (such as Thunderbird) to read them. But these will be verbatim copies, including attachments, encryption etc.

You can set the Save As to use html, in which case you get files you can open in your browser. I'd be wary of this as it won't save attachments, and your message content may be dispersed between a core html file and subsidiary image and graphic files stored in separate subfolders. This is not a robust way to store valuable or important data.

If you have a large number of messages to process, it may be worth installing the ImportExportTools addon, which lets you process many messages at once and gives other file format options

If you want to automate this process, look at the FiltaQuilla addon which offers a save to file option as a filter action.