Thunderbird address book/email recovery

[Sebastian Spiess]

The Wassermans wrote:
> I am attempting to recover a Thunderbird (Windows version) address book 
> and emails from a HDD which has been installed as a slave.  The HDD 
> comes from a system where XP crashed.  I can access all of the files on 
> the HDD but can't, for the life of me, find where the address book and 
> emails are stored or backed up.
> 
> Any suggestions??
> 
> Dave W
> 

Hi,

my old firefox profile is located in
c:\Documents and Settings/<username>/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
from there windows and linux have the same directory structure so a copy n paste to
/home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox
should do.
my windows thunderbird profile is at
c:\Documents and Settings/<username>/Local Settings/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles
and it needs to go on my feisty machine to
/home/<username>/.mozilla-thunderbird

I found some ff profile data at
c:\Documents and Settings/<username>/Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
though not sure about this one

see http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/edit#profile for the official paths, ubuntu varies here!

cheers sebastian