Mail Folder Structure
Hello All,
I've installed TB to replace my old Opera Mail which is getting too old for support.
I have over 25 000 mails from 2004 onwards.
Export from opera went fine, install into TB went fine and then i've realized that the mails were stored on C and my SSD C drive is too small for that (suggestion for the devs, make an option DURING install to avoid this....)
So I read the tutorials, moved the folder in appdata....then created a new profile which pointed to the folder I've moved to and I mist have done something wrong because I don't see any of the 25 000 old mails.
I created another profile and this time it asked me for my email details (login/pass) which I've entered but I'm back to the same problem.
How can I get out of this ?
I have saved my "original" email folder in which I have an "inbox.sbd" folder that seems to contain my mails and even the folders I've defined when I started setting up TB (before realizing it stored everything on C) so I' just like to use this layout but it won't work.
Should I create a new profile, enter my email infos and then overwrite the inbox.sbd with my old one or is there a sort of "reconstruct" option hidden somewhere ?
Thanks for the help and please take my suggestion to allow for email folder location choice seriously......
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Update....
I've looked into my saved directory and I can see a "inbox.sbd" folder with my created folders in it and a size which I like.
I also see a "mail/local folders" and a "pop.free.fr" folder (which is my ISP)
The folder location in the program points to the "local folders" can i change it to the "inbox.sbd" where I have everything ?
Thanks
Okay, I'll start, assuming you're on your original profile where all is okay except you want mail on a different drive. Here are steps: - exit TB - in File explorer, locate the account folder at c:\users\<yourID>\appdata]roaming\thunderbird\profile\..yourprofilename\mail (or \imapmail if imap account) - copy the folder to another drive and feel free to rename the folder, e.g., D:\imap.gmail.com - start TB - click tools>accountsettings>account>server settings - at Message Storage the current account directory is visible. Click 'browse' and change setting to the location you moved the folder to - exit and restart TB and confirm that the setting is working ok - which it should be. - now, you can go to file explorer and delete the mail folder on drive C. -
Ok, that did the trick, I lost about 2 days of mails "in between" but there was nothing vital in it, thanks for the help and if some devs read this it is a very bad point to let the user choose where the 200 megs of program are installed but not where the 8 gigs of mail (in my case) are installed.
Thanks a lot for the detailed step by step tutorial.
JC
Correction, that DID NOT the trick.
Once everything was done I deleted the old default folder in c/users.....and now he won't start thunderbird telling me that the profile is missing.....
So I got to let the profile on C but have the emails on D ?
This is really SO BAD in terms of user ergonomy it's almost comical......
I'll try again tomorrow to create a profile, then move my mails in it (all in C) and the move only the mails out but keep the profile in C.
The key point from the start in that i wanted NOTHING in C because it's a SSD and there is not that much space left in it......
What did you delete? You were to delete only the account folder, not the profile.