Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-23 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:41:07 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the mail please let me be more sure: > > The backup directory contains a Mail/Local Folders directory in which I > see two file pairs of interest: > keep and keep msf > Sent and Sent msf > > If I rename them and pl

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Michael Marsh wrote: > If I understand what you mean correctly, then it should be easy. Thunderbird uses the mbox format, so you can just move one mbox file in place of another. For instance, if you have myBackupInbox, you can move that to Inbox and be ready to go. If you're trying to merge, the

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:10:31 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a CD with the /home backup. On the cashed system I kept a ToKeep > folder into my Thunderbird's local folders with mail I wanted to keep. > How do I reimport that and the old address book ? If I understand what y

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
I don't know specifically, but I set myself up a little while ago to copy my thunderbird files from my laptop to a workstation. When I open thunderbird on the workstation after copying the files, everything matches with the laptop. So no explicit import necessary, just put it back where you copie