Thunderbird PC to Thunderbird Mac?

[MikeT]

My Dad uses Thunderbird on his PC. He wants to use Thunderbird on his Mac. What file do I copy from his PC and place on his new Mac? He wants ALL his email and his address book.

Thanks!

 

[RNDdave]

Ok this is from memory here (at work, not a mac in sight ).

On the PC you need to go to c: \document and settings\username\application data\thunderbird\profiles\ in this directory you'll have another directory with a fairly random name (xxxxxx.default) and there is a file (I think it's called profile.dat) you need to copy the profile directory (xxxxxx.default) to a USB Key or something.

On the mac, open finder, on left hand side there should be a folder called Library, in this folder you should find a folder called Thunderbird followed by a folder called Profiles. Copy the profile driectory (xxxxxx.default) from your USB key to the profiles driectory on the mac.

Now this is from memory - I think there is a file in the profiles directory called something like profiles.dat - you need to open this file, you should see the name of a profile to load, you need to change the name from the one that is there to the name of the profile directory moved from the PC e.g.

[profile]
yyyyyyy.default

change to -> xxxxxx.default

 

[NanoBite]

Great answer considering you were sitting in front of a PC....

On the mac, open finder, on left hand side there should be a folder called Library, in this folder you should find a folder called Thunderbird followed by a folder called Profiles. Copy the profile driectory (xxxxxx.default) from your USB key to the profiles driectory on the mac.

The full path on the Mac is :

~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/ (~ = your Home Account)


First set up a profile in the new installation of Thunderbird on your Mac. Don't set up the accounts. Then take the contents of the old profile and copy it into this new profile.