One thing you can do is to find the profile. Depending on the precise operating system it is under something like users\yourname\App Data\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\somethingstrange
You copy the contents of the somethingstrange directory - mine is called 7ul8bkmi.default as an example,and after you have installed Thunderbird on the new computer, and obvoiusly created a profile, copy the contents of the old profile into the new profile, whatever it is called.
Then restart Thunderbird
Or phone me tomorrow, if that is at all not clear.
PS, you need to set the folder options to show you hidden files and folders and system files, and ideally not to hide the file extensions of "known" file types. The fewer lies windows tells you, the more hope you have of making it do something halfway sensible.
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Date: 2011-08-13 04:13 pm (UTC)Hopefully somebody who has more recent experience can tell you exactly how to do it.
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Date: 2011-09-11 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-13 11:15 pm (UTC)You copy the contents of the somethingstrange directory - mine is called 7ul8bkmi.default as an example,and after you have installed Thunderbird on the new computer, and obvoiusly created a profile, copy the contents of the old profile into the new profile, whatever it is called.
Then restart Thunderbird
Or phone me tomorrow, if that is at all not clear.
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Date: 2011-08-13 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-11 01:54 pm (UTC)