How to Backup and Restore Thunderbird User Profiles on Another PC?

Backup Mozilla Thunderbird user profiles including mails, bookmarks, contacts, extensions, password, etc and restore it on another computer.

This afternoon I was configuring all the office email accounts in Mozilla Thunderbird so that i could control all the email accounts from the same window. After I completed the work it was necessary for me to configure it again in other office computers. It would be a total waste of time doing the same thing again and again. So I searched for the tweaks on the internet that could help me apply same settings on other computers using Thunderbird with no waste of time.

After running from sites to forums and forums to sites and testing all the tweaks and software, I finally found one tool that could do exactly what I mean. I found a software that could help me export the user profiles and import it again on another computer with the same software. I used dropbox to move the configuration from one computer to another, thanks a lot to both.

So you can also export mozilla Thundbird user profiles and import the same profile on another computer that could gradually save lots of your time and the backup of the profile could help you restore it in future too. You can use this freeware called MozBackup to export users profiles which consists of all the mail, accounts and other configurations from main computer to another.

To backup the Thunderbird user profiles first you will need to download and install mozbackup on your computer. If you have already configured user profile on Thunderbird and you think its the time to export the settings then simply run the application and follow the inscreen options to create the backup of user profiles.

• Click the “Next” button in the welcome window.
• In the next step select the operation as “backup a profile” and select “Mozilla Thunderbird” followed by the version from the application list.
• Now select the profile you want to backup and select the directory in your hard drive for backup. It also prompts you whether you want to use the password for the backup file, Its a good idea to make the file password protected.
• It will then gives you option to select the details you want to backup. Select it according to your needs otherwise just leave it default.
• It will then create the backup of the user profile on your selected location. The backup file is in .pcv format.

Once you are done exporting the configuration file, copy that file to another computer where you need to configure it in thunderbird. For that purpose you may use USB devices or any cloud based services.

Now to restore the user profile on another computer, You will again  need to seup Mozbackup on that computer and run the application. Now folow the simple steps as listed below.

• Click the “Next” button in the welcome window.
• In the second step, select the operation as “restore a profile” and select “Mozilla Thunderbird” followed by the version from the application list.
• Now select the profile you want to restore and browse the configuration file you backup earlier. If you have used password earlier then it might prompt you to enter the password.
• Select the details you want to restore.
• In the next step it will restore the user profile. Now restart Thunderbird and you will see all the email, contacts, address books and all the configurations there.

Mozbackup not only backups thunderbird user profiles, but also helps creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird, Songbird and Netscape profiles. It works on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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