Mozilla Thunderbird Import/Export?

Question

Hi, I exported all my mail and adresses from t.bird so as to be able to import it after reinstalling win xp. I exported it with an extension, but now can`t remember its name, and cant get it back. HELP!

Answer 1

If you exported it to another device you should be able to locate it pretty easily. Just go to Start > Search and specify where to search then enter *.svg where "svg" is the extension of the file you exported.

If all you did was export it to your hard drive and then reinstalled the OS over that same hard drive, you'll need some sort of recovery program to find deleted files.

Answer 2

Firefox is an internet browser (like Internet Explorer). Thunderbird is Mozilla's e-mail client program (like Outlook Express). Until IE7 came along I always used Firefox in preference to Internet Explorer because it was less prone to errors, freezing, and various other problems, and most importantly it had the facility to open multiple tabbed web pages in one window. Now IE7 has caught up and has tabbed browsing. It also appears to work well in many other respects, so I'm now using it, but have kept Firefox on my system as a "backup". Thunderbird is a good e-mail program, with one exception - it was unreliable re images embedded in the text. It's some time since I used is, so updates might have solved that problem.

Answer 3

My best luck was to export from Outlook using Comma Separated Values (.csv) and then import that file into Thunderbird.

(...I got all nitpicky...or would you even call it anal?...about it and found the Outlook fields Tbird would accept and preselected those from the Outlook export...so as not to bother with the others, then using the book Firefox and Thunderbird Garage I found where the Thunderbird address book is stored and renamed files so the imported address book became the Tbird Personal address book... But that's just me!)

Answer 4

The question is you exported TO WHERE? If you know where you put it, then just run the import process and when you point to the file, Firefox will know what extension to look for.