had a dual boot linux/xp setup on old computer. Email going back to 2001. Forced a profile folder on shared drive, worked fine in both xp and ubuntu. computer started wheezing, backed up to removeable drive, etc.
Forcing the profile folder on my new machine, the address books, pop server etc work and all my email from 2001-2007 is in there. I can imagine 07 might have been when I first set up tbird and had it import outlook mail-- but I then moved/merged the outlook inbox to the tbird one. I did look for and through any subfolders etc on the new machine that might have mistakenly been created.
I went back to my old computer to see if tbird has an export feature... nope, can't find it... and there is no discernable demarkation in 07 that seperates new vs old. All my 07-10 email is in there as well as 01-07. Near a gig worth so it's a little impractical to forward it all to myself.
Versions of tbird are time-appropriate; 07 for xp, 09 for ubuntu 9.04, and whatever they have (3.x?) for download now in 2010. New machine is XP only for now.
Forcing the profile folder on my new machine, the address books, pop server etc work and all my email from 2001-2007 is in there. I can imagine 07 might have been when I first set up tbird and had it import outlook mail-- but I then moved/merged the outlook inbox to the tbird one. I did look for and through any subfolders etc on the new machine that might have mistakenly been created.
I went back to my old computer to see if tbird has an export feature... nope, can't find it... and there is no discernable demarkation in 07 that seperates new vs old. All my 07-10 email is in there as well as 01-07. Near a gig worth so it's a little impractical to forward it all to myself.
Versions of tbird are time-appropriate; 07 for xp, 09 for ubuntu 9.04, and whatever they have (3.x?) for download now in 2010. New machine is XP only for now.