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Migrate Thunderbird to New PC With Complete Data Security

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Nick Rogers
Published On
September 20th, 2024
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Are you in the process of changing your computer, but your Thunderbird email client is causing you trouble? Cannot afford to leave your Thunderbird data on your old PC and wish to totally clone it on your new computer? If so, this post is for you. It enables you migrate Thunderbird to new PC together with all related data and allows you to access it using the same version of Thunderbird or other platforms, if desired.

How to Migrate Thunderbird to New PC? The Pure Manual Technique

On Your Source Machine

  • Connect a device, such as a USB stick, or any distant storage disc, in order to transmit data.
  • Select Troubleshooting Information by selecting Help from the menu by selecting the Fx57Menu button.
  • Click Open Folder after finding the “Profile Folder” item.
  • In Windows Explorer, your Thunderbird profile folder will appear.
  • Close down Thunderbird.
  • Go three steps higher in Windows Explorer from your Thunderbird profile folder.
  • Copy may be chosen by right-clicking the Thunderbird folder.
  • To copy data, right-click the device you’re using and choose Paste.
  • Unplug the local transmission device from the source machine carefully if you’re using one.

On the Machine You’re Going to

  • Insert the same transmission equipment that you previously used to retrieve your Thunderbird profile folders from the source machine.
  • On the transmission stick, create a copy of the Thunderbird profile folder by right-clicking it and choosing Copy.
  • Open Thunderbird, pick the Fx57Menu menu option, click Help, and then choose Troubleshoot Info.
  • Click Open Folder after finding the “Profile Folder” item.
  • In Windows Explorer, your Thunderbird profile directory will appear.
  • Thunderbird, shut up.
  • Go three steps higher in Windows Explorer from your Thunderbird profile directory.
  • Inside the folder, right-click and then choose Paste.
  • Select to overwrite your current data when requested.

So, here is how you may migrate Thunderbird to new PC. However, the technique only allows you to access emails on your new machine using Thunderbird. Therefore, if you wish to access your Thunderbird data through a different client, consider the following method.

How to Migrate Thunderbird Email to New Computer: An All-in-one Way

The Thunderbird Converter Wizard is the most effective and convenient toolkit to export Thunderbird to another PC. This method differs from others in that it allows you to open Thunderbird emails from the source computer via several clients on your destination machine. It allows you to choose your Thunderbird emails and migrate them to a variety of formats such as PST, EML, PDF, Gmail, and others. These saving settings will allow you to open Thunderbird emails in other email clients such as Outlook and others.

download button

Transfer Thunderbird to New Computer with a Variety of Storage Options

  • Click the green button above to download the Thunderbird migration tool. Install and launch it to migrate Thunderbird to new PC.
    download migration tool
  • After the tool is fully functional, you need to click on the Open tab and then either select the account configured by Thunderbird or select folderschoose thunderbird folders
  • Start browsing all your Thunderbird folders from the device and send them to the application to move Thunderbird to new computer.
    browse thunderbird folders
  • Once all the Thunderbird folders are visible in the left pane of the tool, you can only inspect them if you want.
    preview thunderbird emails
  • Now go ahead and click on the “Export” tab and select the save options. If you want to migrate Thunderbird to Outlook, you can choose PST as the storage option.
    select saving option
  • After choosing the save option, you need to click the “Browse” button to choose the destination for the resulting files and then click the “Save” button to migrate Thunderbird to new machine.
    click save to migrate thunderbird to new pc
Note: If you wish to move Thunderbird emails to the cloud, you may use G Suite, Zoho, Office 365, and other services. Following your selection, you must input your account credentials and then click the save button.

After you’ve converted all of the emails, you may transfer them to a new PC with any USB stick. So, that is how you may migrate Thunderbird to new PC using the all-in-one strategy, which appears to be highly convenient and simple.

Also Read: How to Extract All Contact Numbers from Thunderbird?

Read More About the Automated Approach

  • It has one of the most basic user interfaces for the user’s convenience.
  • Copy Thunderbird to new computer with all attachments, contacts, and so forth.
  • You can open Thunderbird files before transferring them to your new computer.
  • You may use built-in search tool to search emails in Thunderbird folders.
  • The utility provides several storage choices for Thunderbird emails.

Conclusion

We provided both manual and automatic methods to migrate Thunderbird to new PC. You have the option of manually migrate Thunderbird email to new computer. The manual method, on the other hand, only allows you to open Thunderbird emails from the same account. You may use an automated way to migrate Thunderbird to new machine. You may also move Thunderbird emails to Exchange using the automatic technique. Examine both strategies and decide which one is best for you.