Oh, yay! thank you for letting me know that. glad everything was
saved for you. :)
Annette
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On 2/28/2019 8:48 PM, Ron Canazzi
wrote:
Hi Annette,
As far as I can tell, everything is saved. I just updated a day
ago and when I opened the back up version of Thunderbird on my
back up system, the address book, the folder structure (I have
17 sub folders under Inbox) the layout and even the order of
message selection was saved.
On 2/28/2019 4:07 PM, Annette Moore
wrote:
ron, does this save all of your configuration, as well as
your messages? I care more about the configuration than about
actually keeping any of my messages because it took about an
hour for me to get everything I wanted/needed configured to
the way I needed it sinceI have three email accounts. I have
the instructions saved that Richard Wels gave me, but shoot,
if I could back all that up and not have to go through that
again with any clean install of thunderbird on a future new
computer, that would be great!
Annette
On 2/28/2019 1:13 PM, Ron Canazzi
wrote:
Hi Group,
This probably varies from mail program to mail program, but
when using Thunderbird, you can back up almost everything by
doing the following.
1. Close Thunderbird.
2. From the run dialogue, type %appdata% and press enter.
3. You are in the roaming folder. This folder contains
all the application data, settings, address book and e-mails
from Thunderbird.
4. navigate to the folder named Thunderbird and when
highlighted, press control + C to copy that folder.
5. Then paste this folder onto a thumb drive, external
hard drive or some similar device and you have everything
backed up.
6. Now if for some reason, you need a fresh install of
Thunderbird or if you get a new computer and use
Thunderbird, you can simply install Thunderbird and navigate
to the Roaming folder as described in steps 1 through 3
above and paste the contents of the Thunderbird folder that
you have copied into the Roaming folder.
I do this every few days to keep the mail and settings of
Thunderbird backed up.
On 2/28/2019 1:14 PM, marcio via
Groups.Io wrote:
100% agreed. Very, very well said, indeed.
Now I definitely would like to know how I can backup my
messages. I never did it before just because I never knew it
was even possible. Help me with this, please?
Em 28/02/2019 15:09, Travis
Siegel escreveu:
Wishing something would go away because it doesn't fit
your definition of what is useful is just plain silly.
If that were the case, then I wish narrator would go
away, I whish jaws wold go away, I wish windows would go
away. Hell, I wish microsoft would go away.
\See, it serves no purpose.
There are people who use pop3, and it works just fine
for them. There are definitely use cases where pop3 is
a better fit than imap, and there are use cases where
imap is clearly the better alternative. Wishing one or
the other would go away is just ignorance talking.
If you don't wish to use it, then don't, but that
doesn't mean that others who are fully aware of what
they're getting, and do wish to use it shouldn't do so.
I for one much prefer pop3, for several reasons,
including disk usage, security, issues, ease of backup,
and others.
When folks talk about folks loosing years worth of
emails because they used pop3, my question is did those
folks ever backup their mail? I'm thinking no. Sure,
it's not the easiest thing to move mail from one email
client to another, but you're just as likely to loose
all your imap messages if your email provider goes
bye-bye as well, and nobody here can tell me that's
never happened.
It's six of one, and half dozen of the other, use what
works for you, and allow others to use what works for
them.
On 2/28/2019 12:47 PM, Rosemarie Chavarria wrote:
With my old internet
provider, I had a pop 3 account. After I got to a
certain amount of messages, my email started
bouncing. I don't think people are using pop so
much anymore but I could be wrong. I wish pop 3
would go away too.
Yes you can. I have about 200 thousand
messages on gmail's server and it doesn't
really complain at me. You can also clean them
up using iMap as well. I use iMap and wish
that pop 3 would just go away and die. All the
email and attachments are backed up in the
cloud and no matter what device as stated you
are on you can always get your mail. I lost
over 3 years worth of messages once so am not
going back to pop3.
On 28 Feb 2019, at 7:49, Gene wrote:
I don't use IMAP
so others can answer the question. But
I'm sure you can delete messages if you
wish. As I understand it, you can keep
a large number on the server if you
wish.
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Em 28/02/2019
12:34, Gene escreveu:
unless you want
a permanent collection of all your
received messages off site.
Does it means that
using IMAP I won't be able to delete any
message?
Cheers,
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