{"id":466,"date":"2019-11-14T17:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=466"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T14:35:18","slug":"how-do-i-archive-my-emails-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/how-do-i-archive-my-emails-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I archive my emails in Thunderbird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following article will tell you how to archive your messages in Thunderbird. The Mozilla email client thunderbird saves a backup of your emails in what they call a Profile. They will create a Profile named Default by default.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows: <em>location<\/em>\\Thunderbird\\Profiles\\xxxxxxxx.default\\<\/li>\n<li>Mac: ~\/Library\/Thunderbird\/Profiles\/xxxxxxxx.default\/<\/li>\n<li>Linux: ~\/.thunderbird\/xxxxxxxx.default\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The x-s in the name of the profile file will be numbers<\/p>\n<p>Locate the file and save it.<\/p>\n<p>If you would not find the file:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the &#8220;Help&#8221; &gt; &#8220;Troubleshooting Information&#8221; menu.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2854 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hoe-kan-ik-mijn-e-mails-archiveren-in-Thunderbird1-285x300.png\" alt=\"'Help' &gt; 'Troubleshooting Information'\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Look for the line called &#8220;Profile Directory&#8221; \/ &#8220;Profile Folder&#8221;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2855 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hoe-kan-ik-mijn-e-mails-archiveren-in-Thunderbird2-300x136.png\" alt=\"'Profile Directory' \/ 'Profile Folder'\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Show Folder&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The folder location will open.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2856 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hoe-kan-ik-mijn-e-mails-archiveren-in-Thunderbird3-278x300.png\" alt=\"Folder location\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Go a level above and copy this folder.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2857 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hoe-kan-ik-mijn-e-mails-archiveren-in-Thunderbird4-300x86.png\" alt=\"Level above and copy folder\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Preferably save it on an external hard drive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article will tell you how to archive your messages in Thunderbird. The Mozilla email client thunderbird saves a backup of your emails in what they call a Profile. They will create a Profile named Default by default. Windows: location\\Thunderbird\\Profiles\\xxxxxxxx.default\\ Mac: ~\/Library\/Thunderbird\/Profiles\/xxxxxxxx.default\/ Linux: ~\/.thunderbird\/xxxxxxxx.default\/ The x-s in the name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[48],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/466\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}