Saving your settings for Mozilla Thunderbird

Last update on March 14, 2009 10:08 AM by deri58
Published by deri58

Save you settings for Thunderbird





Manual backup


To save the contents of the address book, mail accounts, account settings or plugins installed, just save the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application
Data\Thunderbird

User: the username of the current session.

To restore the configuration, copy this entire folder to the same location.

Via an extension: Accountex


Accountex is an extension (in French) available for Thunderbird, which let you import or export the settings from one account to rdf format.

http://accountex.mozdev.org/en_download.html

Assisted backup: MozBackup


This free tool allows you to save and restore profiles Thunderbird.

MozBackup is compatible with Firefox, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape.

The backup options of the profile are:
  • General Preferences
  • Emails
  • Address Book
  • Bookmarks
  • History
  • Panels
  • Style user
  • Extensions
  • Saved passwords
  • Cookies
  • Forms recorded
  • List of downloads
  • Certificates
  • Cache
  • Email settings
  • Ability to encrypt data saved profile



MozBackup works with Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Official Site Link: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
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