Email recovery from Thunderbird
 

So I have in my hands a harddrive that was until this afternoon in my Dad's computer. He was upgrading from Win2k to XP Pro when everything crapped out on him. The install won't get past a certain point, and it won't boot 2k anymore. I booted up the old Slax CD (like Knoppix but Slackware based) and got everything important out of his Documents folder. All I have left to recover before I can wipe it clean and start fresh is his (and mom's) emails. I had them using Thunderbird, and I assume that they are stored somewhere in /Documents and Settings/HisUserName/, but I haven't found them yet. Anyone know offhand exactly where they are and how he would go about restoring them to a fresh install?

all of Thunderbird's data is in Documents and Settings/Username/Application Data/Thunderbird

not sure how to restore the data to a fresh install, you'll probably have to poke around under Tools-Import..

Thunderbird's basically the mail engine that Mozilla uses (or vice versa). I don't have Thunderbird installed here, but maybe this will help as it's the answer for Mozilla:

C:\Documents and Settings\HisUserName\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\whatever.slt\Mail\HisMailAccount

It's a text file. Maybe you can re-import it into an email box, or just read the text.


EDIT: xanthar beat me

just copy the profile folder to the same location on the new install. i reformat my comp every year. it works like a charm.

Thank you much, guys. You've saved me much ire.