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I did see your post - had no solutions. Now I do, thanks.<br><br>John.<br><br>> From: chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA@public.gmane.org<br>> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org<br>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: can't restore Thunderbird from backup<br>> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:12:17 -0500<br>> <br>> I don't even know if anyone saw this post or not. I got no response. <br>> Anyway, I thought I'd post my fix. Thunderbird was defaulting to IMAP <br>> protocol. So, the ISP server kept overwriting my mail folders. I deleted <br>> .thunderbird, started up Thunderbird again, this time choosing POP <br>> protocol. I pointed TB to my old mail folder and all my old emails are <br>> showing up now! <br>> <br>> Thanks - or whatever. <br>> <br>> Chris <br>> <br>> <br>> [TLUG]: can't restore Thunderbird from backup writes: <br>> <br>> > I'm trying to restore my Thunderbird mail file from backup. <br>> > <br>> > I've done this in the past successfully several times. It's not working<br>> > this time. <br>> > <br>> > I didn't take note of what version of Thunderbird was running before my<br>> > latest hard drive crash. Maybe 2. <br>> > <br>> > The Thunderbird that installed with sudo apt-get install thunderbird is<br>> > 3.1.7 <br>> > <br>> > I tried installing an older version with sudo apt-get install<br>> > thunderbird-2* and it rudely went ahead and installed Thunderbird 3<br>> > again - only this time it took a half hour instead of a few minutes. <br>> > <br>> > I notice my saved mail has folders with .sbd extension but the new<br>> > version saves folders with .msf extension. <br>> > <br>> > I would like to do two things: <br>> > <br>> > 1. Restore my old mail if possible, and<br>> > 2. backup my mail properly for next time. <br>> > <br>> > chris@shiny-desktop:~$ cat /etc/issue<br>> > Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l <br>> > <br>> > Any ideas? <br>> > <br>> > Chris<br>> > --<br>> > The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/<br>> > TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>> > How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists<br>> --<br>> The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/<br>> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists<br> </body>
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