On Thursday 04 September 2008 12:46:59 Chris Dennis wrote:
> Lisi wrote:
> > 1) How do I import settings and data into Thunderbird from Windows Mail?
> > Or basically, can't I?
> >
> > I have found <http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html>, but
> > a) this appears only to import eml files and b) I can't find Windows
> > Mail's directories anyway, tho' I have looked hard.
> >
> > 2) So where on the system does Windows Mail keep it's directories anyway?
>
> Windows Mail keeps its files in
>
> %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\
>
> which is usually
>
> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\
>
> The cunning part is that either AppData is a hidden folder, so you will
> have to use the Folders control panel to make hidden things visible first.
>
> Once you've found the files, this page:
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_and_exporting_your_mail
>
> says the rest is easy.
Thanks, Chris. :-))
It was finding the files that I was signally failing at. So I was hoping that
Thunderbird would find then for me!!
Lisi
