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You have just spent innumerable hours setting up Thunderbird on your most important computer. Now you want to set up your portable computer or your another computer with the same settings but you don't want to spend all that time doing it again from scratch. This article shows the way to copy the settings/profiles from one PC to another.
Copying Thunderbird settings from Windows to Windows is easy. There is a free download that you can use called MozBackup. If you search on google this programme is really simple to find.
Steps:
- Install MozBackup on your most important computer.
- Backup your Thunderbird profile.
- Copy the backup to your secondary computer.
- Install MozBackup on your secondary computer.
- Restore your profile from the backup.
If you'd like step by step directions please refer to the Appendix in the Easy-Email Thunderbird Essential Guide.
If you'd like to copy your Thunderbird settings between Windows, Mac OS X and Linux there are two more steps involved but it's not complex.
I'll refer to the computers as main PC - the one you have set up - and 2nd computer - the one to which you are copying the settings. The menus shown are for duplicating settings from Windows to Mac OS X, but the steps are the same without reference to which operating systems you use.
Important! All the settings and email stored in Thunderbird on the second computer will be removed. This guide is designed with a new installation of Thunderbird under consideration. If you have emails and contacts you would like to keep on your 2nd PC you've got to set up an account to synchronize with Gmail, copy your old emails to your Gmail account, and synchronize your contacts with Gmail before you continue. For details on how to do this please read the Thunderbird Essential Guide.
The steps are:
1. Find the location of your Thunderbird profile on your most important computer.
2. Copy your profile from your main computer to a USB drive.
3. Copy your profile from the USB drive to your second PC.
4. Determine routes to mail folders and signatures.
1. Find the positioning of your Thunderbird profile
The placement of your Thunderbird profile folder depends upon the operating system you use.
If you're uncertain of the location you can determine it in Thunderbird.
- Go to the Tools -gt; Account Settings... Window (Edit -gt; Account Settings... On Linux).
- Decide on the Server Settings tab on your account.
- Push the Browse button to verify the placement of your mail folder for this account.
- Jot down a note of the folder location.
- Now click on the Local Folders tab. Then click on Peruse.
- Jot down a note of the location.
2. Copy your profile from your principal computer to a USB drive
To replicate your profile on to a USB drive simply shut down Thunderbird and go to the folder where your profile is stored.
Note: You could have issues with hidden folders in Linux and Windows. Advice on the way to find them are in the Thunderbird Essential Guide.
Now copy the xxxxxxxx.default folder to your USB drive.
3. Copy your profile from the USB drive to the second computer
On your second computer we are going to copy the contents of the profile folder from the USB drive.
- Install Thunderbird
- Start Thunderbird for the 1st time so that the profile folder gets created. You do not need to open up an account since we're going to overwrite all the settings anyhow.
- Shut down Thunderbird.
- Navigate to the profile folder. Notice how the profile name is different to that of the old computer.
- Open the yyyyyyyy.default folder and remove all of the contents of the folder. Don't remove the yyyyyyyy.default folder - only the contents of the folder!
Significant! This may remove all email and settings you have stored on Thunderbird if you already have Thunderbird on this PC. Only do this if you don't wish to keep the old emails.
- On your USB drive open the profile folder from your principal PC.
- Copy the contents of the xxxxxxxx.default folder on the USB drive into the yyyyyyyy.default folder on your second computer.
It is significant that you don't change the name of the yyyyyyyy.default folder. 4. Verify ways to mail folders and signatures If you find that the email folders do not appear properly you're going to need to verify the folder locations.
- Start Thunderbird again.
- Go to Tools -gt; Account Settings...
- On the Server Settings tab verify the locale of your email folders.
- On the Local Folders tab verify the positioning of your local folders.
- Click the My Mail IMAP tab.
. - Confirm that your signatures are set up in the correct way. If your signatures are kept in external files you are going to need to copy these from your most important PC too. If you entered your signature in Thunderbird it should be set up in the correct way. Full directions on how to set this up can be discovered at our Thunderbird Sync web site where it is possible to get your free copy of the Easy-Email Essential Guide to Thunderbird.
Copying Thunderbird settings from Windows to Windows is easy. There is a free download that you can use called MozBackup. If you search on google this programme is really simple to find.
Steps:
- Install MozBackup on your most important computer.
- Backup your Thunderbird profile.
- Copy the backup to your secondary computer.
- Install MozBackup on your secondary computer.
- Restore your profile from the backup.
If you'd like step by step directions please refer to the Appendix in the Easy-Email Thunderbird Essential Guide.
If you'd like to copy your Thunderbird settings between Windows, Mac OS X and Linux there are two more steps involved but it's not complex.
I'll refer to the computers as main PC - the one you have set up - and 2nd computer - the one to which you are copying the settings. The menus shown are for duplicating settings from Windows to Mac OS X, but the steps are the same without reference to which operating systems you use.
Important! All the settings and email stored in Thunderbird on the second computer will be removed. This guide is designed with a new installation of Thunderbird under consideration. If you have emails and contacts you would like to keep on your 2nd PC you've got to set up an account to synchronize with Gmail, copy your old emails to your Gmail account, and synchronize your contacts with Gmail before you continue. For details on how to do this please read the Thunderbird Essential Guide.
The steps are:
1. Find the location of your Thunderbird profile on your most important computer.
2. Copy your profile from your main computer to a USB drive.
3. Copy your profile from the USB drive to your second PC.
4. Determine routes to mail folders and signatures.
1. Find the positioning of your Thunderbird profile
The placement of your Thunderbird profile folder depends upon the operating system you use.
If you're uncertain of the location you can determine it in Thunderbird.
- Go to the Tools -gt; Account Settings... Window (Edit -gt; Account Settings... On Linux).
- Decide on the Server Settings tab on your account.
- Push the Browse button to verify the placement of your mail folder for this account.
- Jot down a note of the folder location.
- Now click on the Local Folders tab. Then click on Peruse.
- Jot down a note of the location.
2. Copy your profile from your principal computer to a USB drive
To replicate your profile on to a USB drive simply shut down Thunderbird and go to the folder where your profile is stored.
Note: You could have issues with hidden folders in Linux and Windows. Advice on the way to find them are in the Thunderbird Essential Guide.
Now copy the xxxxxxxx.default folder to your USB drive.
3. Copy your profile from the USB drive to the second computer
On your second computer we are going to copy the contents of the profile folder from the USB drive.
- Install Thunderbird
- Start Thunderbird for the 1st time so that the profile folder gets created. You do not need to open up an account since we're going to overwrite all the settings anyhow.
- Shut down Thunderbird.
- Navigate to the profile folder. Notice how the profile name is different to that of the old computer.
- Open the yyyyyyyy.default folder and remove all of the contents of the folder. Don't remove the yyyyyyyy.default folder - only the contents of the folder!
Significant! This may remove all email and settings you have stored on Thunderbird if you already have Thunderbird on this PC. Only do this if you don't wish to keep the old emails.
- On your USB drive open the profile folder from your principal PC.
- Copy the contents of the xxxxxxxx.default folder on the USB drive into the yyyyyyyy.default folder on your second computer.
It is significant that you don't change the name of the yyyyyyyy.default folder. 4. Verify ways to mail folders and signatures If you find that the email folders do not appear properly you're going to need to verify the folder locations.
- Start Thunderbird again.
- Go to Tools -gt; Account Settings...
- On the Server Settings tab verify the locale of your email folders.
- On the Local Folders tab verify the positioning of your local folders.
- Click the My Mail IMAP tab.
. - Confirm that your signatures are set up in the correct way. If your signatures are kept in external files you are going to need to copy these from your most important PC too. If you entered your signature in Thunderbird it should be set up in the correct way. Full directions on how to set this up can be discovered at our Thunderbird Sync web site where it is possible to get your free copy of the Easy-Email Essential Guide to Thunderbird.
About the Author:
Anders Vinther has written extensively about computers and email for the last 10 years. For more information on synchronize outlook and windows live mail sync please vist our web sites.
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