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Moving thunderbird profile with IMAP account

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Rohit Kaila
Rohit Kaila
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I have IMAP email setup on Thunderbird with synchronization setup (full download). I am trying to move this to another machine. When I do that TB starts properly, recognizes all the settings, folders and even my tasks / calendar. However, it starts to download all the files in all the folders again. I have 5+TB of emails, and this is causing a lot of grief. Tried searching a lot but no help.

I have IMAP email setup on Thunderbird with synchronization setup (full download). I am trying to move this to another machine. When I do that TB starts properly, recognizes all the settings, folders and even my tasks / calendar. However, it starts to download all the files in all the folders again. I have 5+TB of emails, and this is causing a lot of grief. Tried searching a lot but no help.

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Are you moving between two macs or between mac and Windows? Did you copy the Thunderbird folder from one computer to another?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer#thunderbird:mac:tb60