What Is the Thunderbird Email File Location in Windows?

[@askleonotenboom]

The magic word is profile. ✅ Watch next ▶ How Do I Move Thunderbird? ▶ kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6qbe2ycp5qFoqc

[@AlexanderBassinIam]

Can someone explain to me what the advantage Thunderbird has over the Outlook? When it better to have?

[@askleonotenboom]

If you mean Microsoft Office's Outlook program - they're both good, but I prefer Thunderbird because it uses open storage formats -- Microsoft's is all proprietary.

[@bikeny]

Another is that Thunderbird is free. As for which is better to have, well, like a lot of things in the computer world, it depends. For me, I user thunderbird for my personal email and the desktop outlook program for work emails; keeps me from accidentally send a personal msg to one of my business contacts and vice-versa, especially as I sort my contacts by first name.

[@phillatella6470]

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[@mikebaker2927]

If you’re using gmail, then the gmail app.

[@davinp]

Thunderbird file location is same Firefox

[@fredstella1814]

Worked! Thanks.

[@garrymcgaw4745]

Thanks Leo 👍.

[@marcos7907marcos]

What about images and attachments. Where are they?

[@askleonotenboom]

They're stored with the messages

[@marcos7907marcos]

@@askleonotenboom I just added my 20 year old Yahoo! mail to Thunderbird. The INBOX file has only 600MB (this number grew over a couple of days but now it stopped at 600MB). That doesn't seem right, 20 years of email including images and attachments in a 600MB file!? What can I do to make sure Thunderbird is backing up all my email history and not just the recent ones? PS: Thanks for your work Leo! You are my go to channel whenever I need assistance with anything computer related.

[@marcos7907marcos]

@@askleonotenboom Do you mean that text INBOX file has all the images and attachments coded in it so I can access them offline if needed? This sounds kind of crazy for a lay person like myself.

[@askleonotenboom]

@@marcos7907marcos That's exactly how it works. Images and attachments are actually converted to and from encoded text (because that's all old email systems could handle) and are included with the message.

[@marcos7907marcos]

@@askleonotenboom thanks!

[@sethi100]

Thanks. If I was to back up my profile and copy to a new machine would it be entire contents of my profile? Could this be the next lesson?

[@askleonotenboom]

Yes. askleo.com/how_do_i_move_my_thunderbirdbased_email_from_one_machine_to_another/

[@Wol747]

I do this all the time with both Firefox and Thunderbird, when transferring from my desktop to my laptop. Just drill down to the profiles folder and delete the contents (actually, make a copy of the profile first and leave it in there as xxxxxxxx.copy - it will be ignored but just in case you make a boo-boo. Just copy the contents from the “master” machine into the profile folder, keeping the folder name untouched on the “slave” computer otherwise the program can’t find it. Next time you fire up the “slave” computer all your settings and emails will be the same as on the “master. The only proviso is to make sure both computers’ Thunderbirds are the same version - sometimes if they’re not the slave Thunderbird won’t work!

[@oldfarttech]

That was great. I had no idea that was there.