How to Backup Thunderbird

Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client is used by 2.4% of the world and most of us use our email client more than any other application. Losing your emails and contacts can be devastating.

Here’s how to backup Thunderbird so you can recover you emails, contacts, etc, should your computer fail or data corruption occurs.

Mozilla Thunderbird stores all your emails, contacts, newsgroup messages, and attachments in a profile folder. Depending on your operating system you can find that folder at one of the following locations:

Once you know your Thunderbird profile location, you need to include that folder in your backup plan. Usually this means adding that folder to the set of folders in your backup set. Now that you know how to backup Thunderbird, your emails and information can be protected and restored should your disaster strike.

How to Recover Thunderbird

If you are backing up Thurderbird on a regular basis (every night is good) then recovery is an easy chore.

• Simply reinstall Thunderbird and configure it for your email address.
• Close it down and confirm the Profile Folder Location.
• Restore your Thunderbird files to that location, overwriting the files that are there now.

Next time you open up Thunderbird all your emails and contacts should be back and you’re ready to go.

How to Backup Thunderbird using CloudPockets

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• Open the  CloudPockets client and select the folder icon at the bottom left.
• Click the Advanced button and work your way through the folders until you show the Thunderbird profile folder on the right hand pane.
• Click the checkbox to add it to your online backup
• Click OK until you are back at the main window
• At this point you can either run a backup immediately, or close the CloudPockets client and answer [Yes] to save settings to Backup Server.

Email and especially email history has become important for businesses. Make sure you don’t lose your emails, backup your Thunderbird client.

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