can't restore Thunderbird from backup

[john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]

I did see your post - had no solutions. Now I do, thanks.

John.

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