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Cannot make a profile to move my email because the computer cannot be open

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dsc81
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I have a computer that using Centos 7 as an OS. I install thunderbird as my email client. It works very well. One day My computer crash and cannot be start again. I already try to move the hard drive to other computer but no luck. Looks like the boot sector is damage. However If I using USB cable I can open again all the file but only to see the file (can copy and delete too). I need to take my email from that old hard drive because the email in my server is set to delete the email 7 days after it download to clients. I read many instruction all the instruction only works when the computer are still running well. I haven't found how to save the email when the computer is already broken. Really appreciate if someone can help. Thanks

I have a computer that using Centos 7 as an OS. I install thunderbird as my email client. It works very well. One day My computer crash and cannot be start again. I already try to move the hard drive to other computer but no luck. Looks like the boot sector is damage. However If I using USB cable I can open again all the file but only to see the file (can copy and delete too). I need to take my email from that old hard drive because the email in my server is set to delete the email 7 days after it download to clients. I read many instruction all the instruction only works when the computer are still running well. I haven't found how to save the email when the computer is already broken. Really appreciate if someone can help. Thanks

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christ1
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I don't really follow what you did. In any case, if you still can access the contents of the old drive copy the Thunderbird profile off of it. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird You can restore the profile on a new drive. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird#Create_a_new_profile_and_copy_the_old_one_over_it

Things would be a whole lot easier if you'd have a backup of your profile folder.